Crisis Management

Getting Ready for the Unthinkable: Pandemic & Infectious Disease Pandemic Planning

Regina Phelps | January 21, 2020

UPDATED: Jan. 21, 2020 What is the condition of your pandemic plan these days? Given the current outbreak of the new novel coronavirus that is spreading in Asia, it might be a good time to brush it off! [caption id="attachment_49414" align="alignright" width="300"] Graphic courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control[/caption] Chinese authorities first identified the new coronavirus – known as 2019nCoV – which has resulted in close to 300 confirmed human infections in China with several deaths reported. A number of countries, including the United States, have been actively screening incoming travelers from Wuhan and exported human infections with the…
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