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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures. This may involve deploying field hospitals and using the resources of military medicine. Sectors such as travel, hospitality, tourism, retail, the arts and entertainment will suffer closures and reorganisations.

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

This includes finding hotels and negotiating the rates, there is the transport from the airport to the hotels to be organised, security guards to be hired, rules to be written, and contingencies to be thought through, such as what if someone falls sick for something other than COVID-19 during quarantine, where do they go to hospital?

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

This includes finding hotels and negotiating the rates, there is the transport from the airport to the hotels to be organised, security guards to be hired, rules to be written, and contingencies to be thought through, such as what if someone falls sick for something other than COVID-19 during quarantine, where do they go to hospital?

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Migration could conceivably be the result of major disasters, not merely of climate trends (as they affect the carrying capacity of areas of land) and of conflict, oppression and political hostility. Classification and prioritization of essential systems in hospitals under extreme events. Disasters 34(2): 552-570. Myrtle, R.C.,