That objective was described on VA’s Office of Emergency Management page going back to 2014, according to cached pages, and was on VA’s site as late as Friday afternoon. But later that day, references to the “fourth mission” were removed and replaced with information that doesn’t reference the mission at all. And it has many resources in short supply at some hospitals, like pressurized rooms used to contain outbreak patients, the New York Times reported. ADGoldsmith, who has worked to counter foreign misinformation targeting veterans, said VA should proactively supply ample and accurate information instead of removing it. “This time of crisis has been what we’ve been working toward for our entire lives,” he said of veteran advocates.

Source: Washington Post March 16, 2020 22:32 UTC