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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future. To help achieve this level of preparation, each U.S.

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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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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. The scenario was as follows: The pandemic has H2M2 which is a flu pandemic, rather than a COVID type pandemic. UK the “most prepared country”? Wrong type of flu?

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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.

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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. Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. Necci 2019.

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Duty of Care for Business Travelers

everbridge

While we are seeing an increase in air travel once more, domestic air travel is still down 19% from January 2019, and international travel remains down 13% from pre-COVID levels. In addition to these exacerbated traditional threats, a new series of business challenges have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Why Crisis Management Preparedness Matters

everbridge

Almost 70 percent of leaders have dealt with a corporate crisis in the last five years, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found in its 2019 Global Crisis Survey. Preparedness is key because it helps you identify vulnerabilities and coordinate how you might best protect your colleagues, customers, partners, and organization in a crisis.