While you might have heard more from Dr. Fauci or President Trump, FEMA’s actually in charge of coordinating the national response to the pandemic. That’s on top of the agency’s other emergency work, including dealing with ongoing and future disaster planning, response, and recovery. And, as Rep. Harley Rouda (D-CA) pointed out, there’s an overlap between these two areas, with a number of the states most at risk of natural hazards (think: California, Florida, Texas) also seeing some of the highest increases in COVID-19 cases.