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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Exercise Cygnus was a command post exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 in order to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom. Lack of a plan.

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Prepare Your Business for Winter Weather During COVID-19

Disaster Safety

. Due to COVID-19, businesses may not be operating at a normal capacity. Some may still be vacant, while others are operating at a reduced capacity or with strict COVID protocols. DEVELOP COVID-TAILORED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR WINTER WEATHER.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. )