2009 Authorization Pandemic 
Emergency Planning
MARCH 11, 2020
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. Major epidemics and pandemics (what is the difference?)
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
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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Pure Storage
MARCH 21, 2022
Two years to the month after the pandemic began changing the world, probably forever, we’ve become used to, for lack of a better word, pivoting. And then there’s Amazon: In the wake of a crippling global recession in 2009, the company launched new Kindle models—and profits surged. Change has become a constant.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
JANUARY 19, 2022
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. Using this data, we summed the enacted budget authority for supplemental appropriations by year. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 20, 2020
Image: US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases In terms of its scope, Covid-19 is like no other disaster that has occurred in the last 100 years, since, in fact, the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 killed more people than both world wars combined, and contributed to the end of the First World War. IRDR Report 2020-01.
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