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In 2017, a team of experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security published a scenario as part of a training exercise that they believed could happen in the not-so-distant future. The year is ...

American democracy and public health effectiveness are inextricable. American health security depends on maximizing the ability to live in a free, pluralistic society able to coherently manage a ...

Dead and dying Cape Girardeau County residents. Lots of them. That's the nightmare that would face Cape Girardeau County health and emergency preparedness officials in a pandemic flu outbreak. The ...

A newly published study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco reveals that the substantial liquid wealth US households sopped up during the pandemic has run out, particularly for those in the ...

A secret drill to prepare for another pandemic saw ministers admitting they'd put schools into lockdwow In a state drill carried out this autumn, ministers were asked to draft plans for what they ...

The United States has equally invested millions in large scale pandemic scenarios (e.g., the crimson contagion), but it speaks to another chapter in the textbook of least-worst decision-making — how ...

Schneier adds that you don’t need a specific pandemic plan to prepare. “…we are best served by a bunch of generic disaster plans and a smart, flexible organization that can deal with anything,” he ...

Sir Keir Starmer is getting the UK ready for another pandemic – which scientists now agree is a case of when, not if. In scenes more comfortably watched in a TV drama, the largest-ever British ...