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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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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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Former FEMA Administrator Calls for Reform

Recovery Diva

Author is Brock Long. 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. From The Hill: Why America Needs Disaster Reform Now.

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Book Review: Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges

Recovery Diva

Review of Pandemic Recovery? Donahue , DHEd, MBA, MSJ, President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Much has been written about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; dissecting timelines, the actions of governments and commerce, and recovery. For Pandemic Recovery? , Bryson, Aksel Ersoy, and Louise Reardon.

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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). 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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Covid-19 and the Disaster Research Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

As I write, the Covid-19 pandemic is ramping up in many countries. So is the response by academic authors. Authors can write in haste and repent at their leisure: editors can rue the day. In 2015 Gaillard and Gomez published an interesting paper on the "disaster research gold rush".

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Post Earthquake: Managing the Situation in Christchurch NZ

Disaster Zone Podcast

He has had multiple roles in leadership ranging from ten years in the New Zealand Navy, to positions with Queens Town Lakes District Council and the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA). Like many of us, he Played a regional role inthe Whole of Government emergency response in the COVID-19 Pandemic.