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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

What are, and have been, the key challenges in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? Viral pandemics can have impacts that are as significant in the socio-economic field as they are in epidemiology and viral medicine. Huge changes in the pattern of demand and supply will occur during a pandemic.

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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). 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. Therefore, the world community must take action immediately."

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. It can also mean communication over very long distances, leading to the adoption of common agendas among disparate groups of people.

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Video Intercoms in a Post-Pandemic World: How Residential Security Systems Have Taken On New Functions

Security Industry Association

Intercoms have been a communication staple for years, especially in the education, healthcare, workplace and residential spaces. Prior to 2020, many security providers might not have seen many requests for occupancy management, but as we enter a post-pandemic world, efforts to maintain social distancing may continue.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Month of February; Updates from Arcserve, Druva, HYCU & More

Solutions Review

Despite economic and political uncertainty, and emerging from the challenges of a global pandemic, people everywhere showed they were willing to adapt and change for the future. For example, PACS (picture archiving and communication system) medical record archives are always coupled with SQL datastores. Read on for more.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Month of February; Updates from Arcserve, Druva, HYCU & More

Solutions Review

Despite economic and political uncertainty, and emerging from the challenges of a global pandemic, people everywhere showed they were willing to adapt and change for the future. For example, PACS (picture archiving and communication system) medical record archives are always coupled with SQL datastores. Read on for more.

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33 Data Privacy Week Comments from Industry Experts in 2023

Solutions Review

The pandemic accelerated the digitalization of customer interactions by several years, and there’s no turning back: we now live in an era of digital. Communicate internally and externally to ensure your stakeholders are aware of your data protection and offer transparency around your practices.