Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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. Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures.

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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.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 26, 2022

The pandemic has thrown the need for improved public health services into sharp focus. Cities must also use their leverage to assert themselves as market makers and demand that technology companies respect the public’s privacy,” writes Ben Smith, author of The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 18, 2021

David Meredith ( 01:47 ): So I wanted to start, if you look at your career span more than six decades, you’ve been famously dubbed the “Comeback kid” by the media for your continued success, as an award-winning actor, director, producer, author, recording artists among many other endeavors. William Shatner ( 11:34 ): Right.

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 6, 2024

While the authors purport to be preparing governments for future shocks, government is rather tangential. A team consisting of Nashville, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Nashville Electric Service (NES), and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) used Synthetic Environment Twin to develop a model of the city and its energy usage.

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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?)

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Myth 20: Field hospitals are particularly useful for treating people injured by sudden impact disasters. Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack.

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Security Industry Association

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In this special report, get SIA’s focus group findings on the security technologies that health care leaders value most, what hospital security practitioners are looking for from integrators and key risks. A new SIA Practitioner Insights is here! Unlock the report here.

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 27, 2017

Try wearing a Make America Great hat on today’s campus and you could get hospitalized. The attackers even used technology to deliver disinformation to the authorities – “hey guys, we’re going to XYZ” when they were really going to ABC. High-profile symbols of authority or opposing views?

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