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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Emergency Planning

About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. For example, civil aviation is particularly vulnerable. It is important to ensure that emergency planning measures are balanced among society's and people's needs. McCaw 2007.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced. Australian Journal of Emergency Management 27(1): 27-33. Register 2007. Gordon 2018.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Myth 65: Children and young people are too vulnerable to be exposed to the effects of disaster. Myth 70: A good emergency plan always ensures a good response to crises. Myth 31: Tsunamis are tidal waves. See: Alexander, D.E.