#Preparedness

TY Danjuma Foundation

As Nigeria confronts the current #COVID19 pandemic, join us by 2pm tomorrow for a tweet chat with @nighealthwatch's director of policy and advocacy @ekemma to discuss Funding for Epidemic Preparedness

inspired by @inarizaki1 I couldn’t sleep again last night, so here are Haikyuu characters as road/camping trip buddies. Objectively and scientifically assessed based on 4 points (Reliability, Preparedness, Fun Level,

Frances Woolley

After H1N1, SARS etc., Canada drew up a pandemic influenza response plan The 2018 version of the plan is here (thread) https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/flu-influenza/canadian-pandemic-influenza-preparedness-planning-guidance-health-sec

Currently viewing: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on #covid19 and US and international pandemic preparednesshttps://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/covid-19-and-us-international-pandemic-preparedness-prevention-and-response-a

☣️ Dr. Syra Madad

Everyone wants to know "what can we do better to prepare for future pandemics?"As someone in the field of biopreparedness & infectious disease emergency management we've long advocated to end

Guess what, the HHS IG did do a lengthy examination of the government's response to the swine flu in 2009. Let's tweet out a few key findings ....https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1247545358705664002 "On the

Governor Tony Evers

Today @DHSWI and I announced the Wisconsin Emergency Assistance Volunteer Registry (WEAVR). Through WEAVR we are proactively creating a wide network of volunteers to increase capacity and care. And folks,

I agree with all of this (minus “misleading” — Wimbledon’s challenge was same in kind, though vastly easier). It’s an epic poem of a subject and I had space for

SCORE CARDS: Arizona just told hospitals they can implement the Crisis Standards of Care Plan. This means doctors may have to decide who lives, who diesThis means they will be

Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.

UN's Global Preparedness Monitoring Board convened by WHO & World Bank issued a Report in Sep 2019 (https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf) that calls for UN strengthening by SIMULATION of "t

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/public-health-lessons-learned-from-biases-in-coronavirus-mortality-overestimation/7ACD87D8FD2237285EB667BB28DCC6E9 Media frenzy 2020: media fre

NEH Pres Access

May Day: a term for both celebration & emergencies. Cultural organizations, protect the collections you celebrate with plans for emergency preparedness & response. #MayDayPrep #PresAccessFunded @conservators Alliance for Response br

Jacob Assa (@jacob_assa): Laissez-Faire, Laissez Mourir.https://developingeconomics.org/2020/03/31/laissez-faire-laissez-mourir/ Jacob Assa (@jacob_assa): The spread of the coronavirus epidemic around the world in the past few weeks has exposed not o

So what just happened and why?Among those skeptical there’s enough data to justify emergency authorization of plasma for COVID-19: Dr. Francis Collins of National Institutes of Health; Dr. Tony Fauci

S.M. Cerberus - No Justice, No Peace

Okay folks, here it is: the first thread of my three part series on #tacmed and #streetmed. Figured that I would start with IFAKs, since a lot of people seem

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

1/ Although the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in many ways, our vulnerabilities to infectious disease threats has been long known to those of us in public health. 2/ Back in