While everyone acknowledges that the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009 was far less severe than everyone had planned for – and indeed far less severe than it first appeared when it claimed lives rapidly in Mexico – you would think everyone knows about the pandemic. I would have thought that only people who lived under [...]
We live in an age of rapid, nearly-instant communication. Emergencies depend on the rapid exchange of information between those who are on-scene and those who can support them, between those who have information to protect others and the public who needs that information to keep safe and help themselves. Internet technologies are among the fastest, [...]
During the H1N1 pandemic at the end of 2009, the Province of Ontario was distributing kits of supplies to healthcare professionals in the field. Many of the kits being distributed contained hand sanitizer that was, technically, expired. We received calls from doctors’ offices and medical institutions about the expired hand sanitizer asking us if it’s [...]
My academic instruction and my own continued readings reinforce the premise that logistics will make or break an emergency response effort. My experience and what I hear from other deployed teams strengthens my belief in the absolute importance of logistical considerations. The debrief session from one of our emergency response teams’ deployment for the G8 [...]
Bad information flows around anywhere, even within networks of emergency management professionals. Just yesterday, there was an article credited to Doug Coup flying around the email system. It came to me from an individual in my branch, who got it from someone at another branch with a lot of emergency response experience, who got it [...]
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