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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. In 2020, some confusion arises from the fact that much of the planning refers to influenza, whereas the SARS category of diseases is not strictly a 'flu virus, but most of the planning principles are exactly the same, so this is mainly a labelling issue.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Civil protection, when it works, is a form of participatory democracy, in which the citizen has an active stake in his or her own safety and security. The Guardian , 5 May 2020. Murray 2020. The Guardian , 25 August 2020 - and subsequent updates.

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