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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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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

But in 2008 floods stretched from Alnwick in Northumberland to Tewksbury in Somerset, nearly 500 km away. Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. In the UK, the term 'disaster' is not used: 'major incident' is preferred. Was this not a disaster?

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Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should We Panic?

Plan B Consulting

Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should we panic? In some years it is estimated that this can rise to over 10,000 deaths, which estimated over 13,000 deaths resulting from flu in 2008-09’. I also think in the background, it might be worth dusting off your pandemic plan and checking whether it needs updating.

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Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should We Panic?

Plan B Consulting

Pandemic Planning: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Should we panic? In some years it is estimated that this can rise to over 10,000 deaths, which estimated over 13,000 deaths resulting from flu in 2008-09’. I also think in the background, it might be worth dusting off your pandemic plan and checking whether it needs updating.

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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

MHA Consulting

Those attacks, coupled with the 2008 financial meltdown, exposed the limits of an approach that was limited to protecting a handful of essential business processes. Then came the game-changer that was the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts.