Recently a representative for the National Geographic Channel sent FluTrackers an email with a question in advance of their pandemic show airing on November 1st:
Historical records show that another pandemic will occur, but no one knows when. How do we create a mind shift among world leaders and people in general to start planning for the next one now?
Our response:
World leaders need to remember the panic during the Ebola epidemic as it moved through communities and then expanded geographically to take over whole countries. Nine hundred experts responding to the Global Risk Perceptions Survey recently rated the impact of "Rapid and Massive Spread of Infectious Disease" as their #2 concern. While world leaders can direct public policy to plan for future pandemics, our team believes a mind shift can be created by increasing education and stressing the need for the general public to plan how they should respond on a personal level. Each person, each family, and each local community needs to take responsibility and plan & prepare for their security. This planning should include local risks such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes as well as future pandemics. Many of the strategies are similar for all of these situations. Resilience must be built for emergencies because government planning and response may not be able to reach all people under these circumstances.
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A clip from the show at this link.
Historical records show that another pandemic will occur, but no one knows when. How do we create a mind shift among world leaders and people in general to start planning for the next one now?
Our response:
World leaders need to remember the panic during the Ebola epidemic as it moved through communities and then expanded geographically to take over whole countries. Nine hundred experts responding to the Global Risk Perceptions Survey recently rated the impact of "Rapid and Massive Spread of Infectious Disease" as their #2 concern. While world leaders can direct public policy to plan for future pandemics, our team believes a mind shift can be created by increasing education and stressing the need for the general public to plan how they should respond on a personal level. Each person, each family, and each local community needs to take responsibility and plan & prepare for their security. This planning should include local risks such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes as well as future pandemics. Many of the strategies are similar for all of these situations. Resilience must be built for emergencies because government planning and response may not be able to reach all people under these circumstances.
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A clip from the show at this link.
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