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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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National Weather Disasters Are Becoming More Prevalent And Severe… And Help Is Not Necessarily On The Way

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For instance, part of any plan for continuity is insurance. If a Chinese supplier doesn’t have insurance and is wiped out by a weather disaster such as the flooding in the Henan province in 2021 that killed 302 and cost $16.5 The supply chain problems the US has had since the pandemic are a glaring example of the issue.