{"id":22376,"date":"2026-05-07T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fewer-than-half-of-us-states-adequately-prepared-for-health-emergency-ahead-of-world-cup-report\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:22:13","slug":"fewer-than-half-of-us-states-adequately-prepared-for-health-emergency-ahead-of-world-cup-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fewer-than-half-of-us-states-adequately-prepared-for-health-emergency-ahead-of-world-cup-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer than half of US states adequately prepared for health emergency ahead of World Cup: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer than half of U.S. states are sufficiently prepared for a health emergency, according to research released Thursday.&nbsp; Only 20 states scored &ldquo;high&rdquo; on the annual report from Trust for America&rsquo;s Health (TFAH) on national public health emergency preparedness. Seventeen states and Washington, D.C., scored in the &ldquo;middle tier,&rdquo; and 13 states fell into the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5868344-states-health-emergency-readiness\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer than half of U.S. states are sufficiently prepared for a health emergency, according to research released Thursday.&nbsp; Only 20 states scored &ldquo;high&rdquo; on the annual report from Trust for America&rsquo;s Health (TFAH) on national public health emergency preparedness. Seventeen states and Washington, D.C., scored in the &ldquo;middle tier,&rdquo; and 13 states fell into the&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}