"For bioterrorism, we\’re about as prepared as we are for snow," said City Councilman Jack Weiss, who has spent a year working with security experts and local officials to figure out what Los Angeles needs to do to prepare for and prevent terrorist attacks.
"It\’s not someone else\’s problem. It\’s our problem." The problem Devorah Shubowitz is talking about: poverty.
The topic was terrorism. \”How underprepared are we in the U.S.?\” \”Very.\” That exchange, between an emergency care physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Dr. Jonathan Halevy, director of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, was part of an ongoing effort in Los Angeles to change the answer.
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