Citation

Lancet 2005; 366(9489): 867.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67291-1

PMID

16153993

Abstract

One of the most shocking aspects of the crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina has been the poor emergency response. But the failure is no real surprise, says Samuel Loewenberg in a World Report. This week's lead Editorial states: "for the response to have been so sparse and so late that thousands of people had to endure 6 parched and hungry days in the drowning city, the public-health authorities must have got things very badly wrong".