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We may be both grateful for these tools but also a bit worried, what happens if these marvelous new technologies break down and leave our loved ones more vulnerable than ever before ? Pandemic preparedness in ‘ Contagion ’ rings true During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many turned to Steven Soderbergh’s. – Lisa Yaszek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The funds created for earthquake preparedness have been used for projects such as road constructions, infrastructure build-ups, etc. other than earthquake preparedness, in other words, no buffers or cushions have been set in place to limit the economic impacts of such disasters. – Arda Tunca	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the extent of( megaflood) losses can be significantly reduced by doing certain sorts of things to revamp our flood management and our water management systems and our disaster preparedness. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Only a very small fraction of disaster spending is committed to preparedness and resilience building. We would expect to see a big shift in this ratio to see a much bigger focus on preparedness given the escalating risk of climate-fuelled disasters. – Amanda McKenzie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We knew in this situation we can't directly contact the government of Ukraine. So we've reached to WHO to offer the drug on a humanitarian basis if it's needed, there's a small window to treat people after a nuclear event. So our outreach is about informing, preparedness and awareness of this drug should it become necessary. – John McManus	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want to have an after-action report on this, what did Concerned Scientists know and when do Concerned Scientists know what Concerned Scientists had, what information did Concerned Scientists have ? Are there any intelligence failures in terms of Concerned Scientists preparedness ? – New York	Found on CNN 2 years ago
People need to recognize that these events that happened in the past are no longer a good predictor of the future and that we need to be much more prepared because we are in a different world, we have more vulnerable people at risk, so we really need to develop a stronger culture of preparedness. – Jennifer Marlon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The takeaway is that Climate Change is not what people think Climate Change is. It is significantly outweighed by things like droughts, which are still determined by natural variables and by economic development and preparedness, and we’re just so much better prepared, we’re more resilient to changing temperatures than we’ve ever been and it’s just not the end of the world. – Michael Shellenberger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Gavin Newsom is trying to nationalize [and] partisan-ize the election, what he doesn't realize is that this is a referendum on his failures here in California, pure and simple. It's a failure on schools, it's a failure on skyrocketing homelessness, [a] dramatic rise in crime and his lack of preparedness for wildfires. – Kevin Faulconer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But, a big piece of that as well, from the FEMA point of view, is that we work very closely with our state partners and our local partners as they are doing their preparedness efforts getting ready for this hurricane season. – Deanne Criswell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The National Hurricane Center has been a great partner with FEMA for the longest period of time, right? And so, we work together collectively to make sure that we are getting consistent messaging out to state and local jurisdictions, but, a big piece of that as well, from the FEMA point of view, is that we work very closely with our state partners and our local partners as they are doing their preparedness efforts getting ready for this hurricane season. – Deanne Criswell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have to remember that in the world around us, most likely, this virus will keep on transmitting, so we need to keep a high level of preparedness in place. It’s not going to be an easy life. – Anders Tegnell	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It is possible, and even likely, that other well-intentioned preparedness efforts may inadvertently cause children and adults to place themselves in additional danger in a crisis situation, children( and adults) might be taught to fight a heavily armed intruder, when fleeing or hiding would be a more appropriate response. – The AAP	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Even in the age of the social media revolution, PR's essence remains the same as always: honesty, integrity, and preparedness to react. – Maxim Behar	added by MaximBehar 3 years ago
Social distancing and other CDC guidance to keep you safe from COVID-19 may impact the disaster preparedness plan you had in place, including what is in your go-kit, evacuation routes, shelters and more. – Carlos Castillo	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
From this pandemic we have to try to learn…what the gaps are, this is a message even for the developed countries. Across the board you see a lack of preparedness of the public health system, no country is immune. No country can claim it has a strong health system. We have to be really honest and assess and address this problem. – Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
For 15 years now, this country has had a massive effort at the federal, state and local level of preparedness for pandemic, we knew about SARS, we knew about MERS, which were earlier modifications of the coronavirus. None of those achieved anything like what we are seeing today. But that is why four successive presidencies, including the leadership of President President Donald Trump, there has been a great focus on pandemic preparedness. – Secretary Alex Azar	Found on CNN 4 years ago
CORONAVIRUS : BIOTECH COMPANY SHIPS FIRST BATCHES OF VACCINE, TO BE TESTED ON HUMANS : REPORT Nurses at a drive-up coronavirus testing station set up by the University of Washington Medical Center sanitize their hands after taking a nose swab sample from a person in a car Friday, March 13, 2020, in Seattle. ( AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) A 70-year-old physician in Paterson, N.J., -- who leads the emergency preparedness unit at an institution in the state -- was admitted to a hospitallast week with upper respiratory problems and remains isolated in intensive care. In Washington, an emergency physician in his 40s is in stable but critical condition after having symptoms consistent with the COVID-19. Itsunknown whether the virus was spread at work or in the community, The ACEP said. He worked at EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland, Wash., where at least 15 people have died from the virus, according to the New York Times. Its located near the Seattle area, whichis known as the epicenter of the virus outbreak in the U.S. This was an area with an outbreak, so they were expecting and prepared. That obviously makes us more nervous.Dr. Angela Fusaro, an emergency doctor in Georgia told the paper. NEW YORK CITY CLOSING MOVIE THEATERS, ENTERTAINMENT VENUES DUE TO CORONAVIRUS The recent shortage of N-95 protective masksis also worrisome fordoctors, who need them to treat patients, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams wrote on Twitter in late February. They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers cant get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk ! – The ACEP	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Caution is appropriate. Preparedness is appropriate. Panic is not. – Surgeon General Jerome Adams	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I want folks to understand that we knew this was coming, we told folks that this was going to happen and it is why we've been preaching preparedness from the very start, caution is appropriate. Preparedness is appropriate. Panic is not. – United States	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This has been a realistic risk for a month, and the signal to trigger that kind of preparedness has only been going out in the last few days in an explicit way, that's a huge problem. – Jeremy Konyndyk	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Trump administration continues to take the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease very seriously. Today, the administration is transmitting to Congress a $2.5 billion supplemental funding plan to accelerate vaccine development, support preparedness and response activities and to procure much needed equipment and supplies. – Rachel Semmel	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The goal of the joint mission is to rapidly inform the next steps in the COVID-19 response and preparedness activities in China and globally, particular attention will be paid to understanding transmission of the virus, the severity of disease and the impact of ongoing response measures. – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
However, the detection of three cases outside China is worrying. We calculate, based on flight and population data, that there is only a 1 in 574 chance that a person infected in Wuhan would travel overseas before they sought medical care. This implies there might have been over 1,700 cases in Wuhan so far, there are many unknowns, meaning the uncertainty range around this estimate goes from 190 cases to over 4,000. But the magnitude of these numbers suggests that substantial human-to-human transmission can not be ruled out. Heightened surveillance, prompt information sharing and enhanced preparedness are recommended. – Neil Ferguson	Found on CNN 4 years ago

We may be both grateful for these tools but also a bit worried, what happens if these marvelous new technologies break down and leave our loved ones more vulnerable than ever before ? Pandemic preparedness in ‘ Contagion ’ rings true During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many turned to Steven Soderbergh’s.

– Lisa Yaszek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The funds created for earthquake preparedness have been used for projects such as road constructions, infrastructure build-ups, etc. other than earthquake preparedness, in other words, no buffers or cushions have been set in place to limit the economic impacts of such disasters.

– Arda Tunca

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the extent of( megaflood) losses can be significantly reduced by doing certain sorts of things to revamp our flood management and our water management systems and our disaster preparedness.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Only a very small fraction of disaster spending is committed to preparedness and resilience building. We would expect to see a big shift in this ratio to see a much bigger focus on preparedness given the escalating risk of climate-fuelled disasters.

– Amanda McKenzie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We knew in this situation we can't directly contact the government of Ukraine. So we've reached to WHO to offer the drug on a humanitarian basis if it's needed, there's a small window to treat people after a nuclear event. So our outreach is about informing, preparedness and awareness of this drug should it become necessary.

– John McManus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to have an after-action report on this, what did Concerned Scientists know and when do Concerned Scientists know what Concerned Scientists had, what information did Concerned Scientists have ? Are there any intelligence failures in terms of Concerned Scientists preparedness ?

– New York

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People need to recognize that these events that happened in the past are no longer a good predictor of the future and that we need to be much more prepared because we are in a different world, we have more vulnerable people at risk, so we really need to develop a stronger culture of preparedness.

– Jennifer Marlon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The takeaway is that Climate Change is not what people think Climate Change is. It is significantly outweighed by things like droughts, which are still determined by natural variables and by economic development and preparedness, and we’re just so much better prepared, we’re more resilient to changing temperatures than we’ve ever been and it’s just not the end of the world.

– Michael Shellenberger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Gavin Newsom is trying to nationalize [and] partisan-ize the election, what he doesn't realize is that this is a referendum on his failures here in California, pure and simple. It's a failure on schools, it's a failure on skyrocketing homelessness, [a] dramatic rise in crime and his lack of preparedness for wildfires.

– Kevin Faulconer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But, a big piece of that as well, from the FEMA point of view, is that we work very closely with our state partners and our local partners as they are doing their preparedness efforts getting ready for this hurricane season.

– Deanne Criswell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The National Hurricane Center has been a great partner with FEMA for the longest period of time, right? And so, we work together collectively to make sure that we are getting consistent messaging out to state and local jurisdictions, but, a big piece of that as well, from the FEMA point of view, is that we work very closely with our state partners and our local partners as they are doing their preparedness efforts getting ready for this hurricane season.

– Deanne Criswell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have to remember that in the world around us, most likely, this virus will keep on transmitting, so we need to keep a high level of preparedness in place. It’s not going to be an easy life.

– Anders Tegnell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is possible, and even likely, that other well-intentioned preparedness efforts may inadvertently cause children and adults to place themselves in additional danger in a crisis situation, children( and adults) might be taught to fight a heavily armed intruder, when fleeing or hiding would be a more appropriate response.

– The AAP

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Even in the age of the social media revolution, PR's essence remains the same as always: honesty, integrity, and preparedness to react.

– Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

Social distancing and other CDC guidance to keep you safe from COVID-19 may impact the disaster preparedness plan you had in place, including what is in your go-kit, evacuation routes, shelters and more.

– Carlos Castillo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

From this pandemic we have to try to learn…what the gaps are, this is a message even for the developed countries. Across the board you see a lack of preparedness of the public health system, no country is immune. No country can claim it has a strong health system. We have to be really honest and assess and address this problem.

– Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

For 15 years now, this country has had a massive effort at the federal, state and local level of preparedness for pandemic, we knew about SARS, we knew about MERS, which were earlier modifications of the coronavirus. None of those achieved anything like what we are seeing today. But that is why four successive presidencies, including the leadership of President President Donald Trump, there has been a great focus on pandemic preparedness.

– Secretary Alex Azar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

CORONAVIRUS : BIOTECH COMPANY SHIPS FIRST BATCHES OF VACCINE, TO BE TESTED ON HUMANS : REPORT Nurses at a drive-up coronavirus testing station set up by the University of Washington Medical Center sanitize their hands after taking a nose swab sample from a person in a car Friday, March 13, 2020, in Seattle. ( AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) A 70-year-old physician in Paterson, N.J., -- who leads the emergency preparedness unit at an institution in the state -- was admitted to a hospitallast week with upper respiratory problems and remains isolated in intensive care. In Washington, an emergency physician in his 40s is in stable but critical condition after having symptoms consistent with the COVID-19. Itsunknown whether the virus was spread at work or in the community, The ACEP said. He worked at EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland, Wash., where at least 15 people have died from the virus, according to the New York Times. Its located near the Seattle area, whichis known as the epicenter of the virus outbreak in the U.S. This was an area with an outbreak, so they were expecting and prepared. That obviously makes us more nervous.Dr. Angela Fusaro, an emergency doctor in Georgia told the paper. NEW YORK CITY CLOSING MOVIE THEATERS, ENTERTAINMENT VENUES DUE TO CORONAVIRUS The recent shortage of N-95 protective masksis also worrisome fordoctors, who need them to treat patients, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams wrote on Twitter in late February. They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers cant get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk !

– The ACEP

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Caution is appropriate. Preparedness is appropriate. Panic is not.

– Surgeon General Jerome Adams

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I want folks to understand that we knew this was coming, we told folks that this was going to happen and it is why we've been preaching preparedness from the very start, caution is appropriate. Preparedness is appropriate. Panic is not.

– United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This has been a realistic risk for a month, and the signal to trigger that kind of preparedness has only been going out in the last few days in an explicit way, that's a huge problem.

– Jeremy Konyndyk

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Trump administration continues to take the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease very seriously. Today, the administration is transmitting to Congress a $2.5 billion supplemental funding plan to accelerate vaccine development, support preparedness and response activities and to procure much needed equipment and supplies.

– Rachel Semmel

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The goal of the joint mission is to rapidly inform the next steps in the COVID-19 response and preparedness activities in China and globally, particular attention will be paid to understanding transmission of the virus, the severity of disease and the impact of ongoing response measures.

– Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

However, the detection of three cases outside China is worrying. We calculate, based on flight and population data, that there is only a 1 in 574 chance that a person infected in Wuhan would travel overseas before they sought medical care. This implies there might have been over 1,700 cases in Wuhan so far, there are many unknowns, meaning the uncertainty range around this estimate goes from 190 cases to over 4,000. But the magnitude of these numbers suggests that substantial human-to-human transmission can not be ruled out. Heightened surveillance, prompt information sharing and enhanced preparedness are recommended.

– Neil Ferguson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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