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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Emergency Planning

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. That was at a time when an influenza pandemic with devastating consequences was greatly feared.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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10 Tips for framing your case for Business Continuity to Executives

BryghtPath

After a pandemic year like 2020—and 2021—executives get the importance of business continuity planning. The situation was the same in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. And in 2012, after Hurricane Sandy. And after mass shooting incidents. Management has a heightened sense of why business continuity is necessary. Then, the memories fade.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Covid-19: An Address

Emergency Planning

The Covid-19 pandemic ought to teach us the importance of both preparedness and social participation. The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. There was a period in the decade of the 2000s and early 2010s in which pandemics were the focus of emergency planners' attention. That is a sobering lesson.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. There is also a link between pandemics and the 'intentional disaster' of bioterrorism (Trufanov et al. Caffrey 2005. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al. Masri, R.L. Nigbor and J.P.

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NCDP 20th Anniversary Reflections and Impacts

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Thomas Chandler, PhD, NCDP Deputy Director, Research Scientist In the days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the NCDP team had several meetings to determine how we could be most effective in responding to this unprecedented disaster in the Gulf Coast, which had caused the largest migration of U.S. residents since the Civil War.