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Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should We Panic?

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Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should we panic? In the last serious outbreak of a similar type of flu, SARS in 2003, the outbreak ‘only’ killed less than 800 worldwide, so I think we have to view the fatalities in terms of the average impact of seasonal flu. appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should We Panic?

Plan B Consulting

Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should we panic? In the last serious outbreak of a similar type of flu, SARS in 2003, the outbreak ‘only’ killed less than 800 worldwide, so I think we have to view the fatalities in terms of the average impact of seasonal flu. appeared first on PlanB Consulting.

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Why Crisis Management Preparedness Matters

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And, according to management consultancy McKinsey , between 2010 and 2017, the name of a Forbes-recognized top 100 company appeared in headlines together with the word “crisis” 80 percent more often than in the previous decade — and those are just the organizations that made the news. “It