The Department of Defense (DOD) is working to obtain 100,000 body bags for FEMA in anticipation of increasing COVID-19 deaths—coming two days after Trump administration officials warned that the U.S. pandemic death toll could surpass 100,000.
“The Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency have a longstanding arrangement with FEMA to procure key commodities from DLA’s industrial partners during crisis response operations,” Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Andrews wrote in an emailed statement to numerous news outlets, in reference to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
