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Are You Ready for a ‘Triple-Demic’ For the Holidays?

DRI Drive

Health officials are warning of a serious jump in COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity throughout the winter, reminding us that the pandemic hasn’t left us yet. What can your organization expect?

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Survey: Manufacturing Bosses Stepping Up Supply Chain Resilience as Pandemic Response

DRI Drive

As a response, CEOs in the manufacturing sector are taking active steps to mitigate their supply chain risks. The post Survey: Manufacturing Bosses Stepping Up Supply Chain Resilience as Pandemic Response appeared first on DRI Drive. Based on their responses, two […].

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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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Dealing with Pandemic Mental Health Stress

Disaster Zone Podcast

The COVID-19 Pandemic has caused all types of stresses on people and organizations. In this podcast we look at the impacts of the pandemic on behavioral health, for citizens, responders and medical personnel. She also shares the coping measures people can use to deal with the mental stresses coming from the pandemic.

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Public Information Strategies in the Pandemic

Disaster Zone Podcast

Public Information Officers (PIO) had their work cut out for them in responding to the COVID pandemic. Meredith is also active in the field of graphic medicine, as a cartoonist and author of Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Roadmap. King County Washington was the first place in the USA that a death from COVID occurred.

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Interpreting the Pandemic for Decision Making and Action

Emergency Planning

As the Covid-19 pandemic progresses, causing distributed crises in one country after another, it is like watching all I have taught about for the last four decades flash past in a sort of speeded-up film. My primary message was that a pandemic is as much a socio-economic and behavioural problem as a medical and epidemiological one.

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Former FEMA Administrator Calls for Reform

Recovery Diva

Today, FEMA is managing more than 100 active disaster recovery efforts nationwide and that does not account for the other crises they have been called to support other federal agencies with, like the COVID-19 pandemic and the southern border.