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Displaying 15 of about 21 resultsEvaluación desarrollada para apoyar el diseño de políticas, programas y acciones que permitan a la Ciudad de México sobrevivir, resistir, recuperarse y adaptarse y crecer ante riesgos, tensiones crónicas, impactos actuales y futuros. Se ha desarrollado esta publicación como insumo para brindar herramientas a otras áreas del gobierno de la Ciudad de Méxi…
To help federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) emergency managers and public health officials respond to incidents during the 2020 hurricane season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is releasing the COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season. This document will:
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This paper captures, identifies , and describes the patterns of longitudinal risk communication from public health communicating agencies on Twitter during the first 60 days of the response to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. They collected 138,546 tweets from 696 targeted accounts from February 1 to March 31,2020, employing…
Nursing homes (NHs) are considered hotspots for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), given their residential environments and patient vulnerabilities. This study describes the COVID-19 preparedness of NHs across the US. Its results indicate the need for NHs to continue refining their preparedness strategies in response to local virus prevalence, residen…
The objective of this qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of school and preparedness officials on the feasibility of implementing a range of social distancing practices to reduce influenza transmission during a pandemic. In the summer of 2017, 36 focus groups were conducted by teleconference and webinar lasting 90 min with s…
The global impact of COVID-19 has been profound, and the public health threat it represents is the most serious seen in a respiratory virus since the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic. The study presents the results of epidemiological modelling which has informed policymaking in the UK and other countries in recent weeks. In the absence of a COVID-19 vacc…
This CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report seeks to do just that, framing pandemic disease as a stark threat to global and national security that neither the United States nor the world can afford to ignore again. It argues that future pandemic threats are inevitable and possibly imminent; policymakers should prepare for them and identify what has…
Improved understanding of the overall distribution of work-place coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks by industry sector could help direct targeted public health action. In this report, the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) analyzed COVID-19 surveillance data to describe workplace outbreaks by industry sectors.
The racial and ethnic disparities…
This research article models how a hypothetical hurricane evacuation from four counties in southeast Florida would affect COVID‐19 case levels. The authors find that hurricane evacuation increases the total number of COVID‐19 cases in both origin and destination locations; however, if transmission rates in destination counties can be kept from rising du…
The novel coronavirus outbreak that emerged in late 2019 has infected tens of thousands in China, community transmission is feared in other countries, and containment looks increasingly unlikely. The world is woefully unready for a scenario in which China-like conditions emerge in multiple other countries. The US, in particular, should not assume it is…
This article describes the ways that an energy organization, the regional transmission operator PJM, is preparing for hurricanes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. PJM is using a combination of technological and organizational processes to prepare for hurricanes during the pandemic.
Activities include the development of a third co…
This article highlights the need for enacting COVID-19 countermeasures in advance of seasonal increases in natural hazards. The authors argue that the inclusion of natural hazard inputs into COVID-19 epidemiological models could enhance the evidence base for:
informing contemporary policy across diverse multi-hazard scenarios, defining and addre…
The aim of this exploratory paper is to provide some critical perspectives and insights on the role of the private sector in disaster risk reduction, in particular with regards to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recovery process.
In this research, the authors examine message features shown in prior disasters to increase or decrease message retransmission under imminent threat conditions to develop models of official risk communicators’ messages shared online from February 1, 2020-April 30, 2020. They develop a lexicon of keywords associated with risk communication about th…
Los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá, República Dominicana y el Viceprimer Ministro de Belize, ante la expansión del Coronavirus (COVID-19) a nivel global, declarado como pandemia por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), por iniciativa de la Presidencia Pro Tempore de Honduras y la Secretaría Gene…