Governors take charge of response to the coronavirus
Just after every gubernatorial election, but before inaugurations, the National Governors Association organizes a two-day “New Governors School.” Current governors serve as the faculty for newly elected governors, offering a crash course in taking on states’ highest office from those with first-hand experience.
It is not by chance that the first of about eight sessions focuses on “What do you do in a crisis?”
One of the very first recommendations to all new governors during this session is to make their first appointment the state’s emergency preparedness agency director – not the chief of staff or even the governor’s liaison to the legislature. Those can wait.
The nation’s governors know a crisis can happen the day after the inauguration and they need to be prepared. Today, the coronav...