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Creator: Georgetown University
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2019-09-27
Description: Global Health Security Seminar: The Ebola virus disease outbreak that affected West Africa from 2014 to 2016 was the largest and most complex on record since the virus was first discovered in the 1970’s. In August of 2018, the disease appeared again… -
Creator: National Governors Association (NGA)
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2019-11-26
Description: The third webinar in the four-part series on Legal Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies, this was hosted in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Bar Association. -
Creator: Wang X., Zhang X., He J.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-02-17
Description: On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announced an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), China is now at a critical period in the control of the epidemic. -
Creator: Baud, David, Xiaolong Qi, Karin Nielsen-Saines, Didier Musso, Léo Pomar, and Guillaume Favre.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-31
Description: As of March 1, 2020, 79 968 patients in China and 7169 outside of China had tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).This article resulted in correspondence and the following responding articles: Spychalski, Piotr, Agata… -
Creator: Emanuel, Ezekiel J., Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, and James P. Phillips.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: Covid-19 is officially a pandemic. It is a novel infection with serious clinical manifestations, including death, and it has reached at least 124 countries and territories. -
Creator: Truog, Robert D., Christine Mitchell, and George Q. Daley.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to severe shortages of many essential goods and services, from hand sanitizers and N-95 masks to ICU beds and ventilators. Although rationing is not unprecedented, never before has the American public been faced with the… -
Creator: Washington State Department of Health and Northwest Healthcare Response Network
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2021-11
Description: In the event of a large-scale disaster, either a no-notice event such as a natural disaster or a prolonged situation such as a pandemic, there is the potential for an overwhelming number of critically ill or injured patients. In these situations,… -
Creator: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2006-03-31
Description: The VA Pandemic Influenza Plan has been created to guide VA in protecting staff and Veterans during a pandemic. It is part of VA emergency plans to help all parts of VA with preparation, response, and recovery stages of an influenza pandemic. -
Creator: Fink, Sheri L.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2010
Description: Demand for critical care resources could vastly outstrip supply in an influenza pandemic or other health emergency, which has led expert groups to propose altered standards for triage and resource allocation. -
Creator: Madad, Syra, Joshua Moskovitz, Matthew R. Boyce, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, and Rebecca Katz.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
Description: Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology.