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In cardiac arrest, the first shock usually does not land until around minute eleven. A Virginia county is now flying AEDs in by drone, and a city three hours north just put one in a weatherproof cabinet in a public park. Two answers to the same problem.

Teenage lifeguards at a Virginia club used an AED twice on a 14-year-old who fully recovered. A second pool rescue in Florida the following day. Both turn on the same question, asked out loud mid-emergency: where is the AED?

Six states have new school cardiac emergency requirements landing on the 2026-27 school year. A new investigation found most districts in one Texas county have no plan at all. Here is what each state now requires and how to audit your own readiness before October.