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 [...]
We had it easy with the H1N1 flu pandemic that hit us in 2009 to early-2010. It wasn’t the killer virus that experts had been telling everyone to plan for and to expect. It wasn’t a replay of 1918. The real danger now is that the boy cried wolf, and people may not heed the [...]
With the movie 2012 playing in theatres, more mediocre disaster flicks than you can shake a stick at, movies like Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman, and dire comparisons with the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, it’s hard not to conclude that the current H1N1 pandemic has been something of a flop. What happened to the hordes of sick [...]
Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics. That is a military maxim that applies to endeavours emergency management. It’s easy to concentrate on tactics: the front line, where the rubber meets the road. It’s easy to forget that there is no rubber and no gas in the engine without the right logistics behind the [...]
Kingston is a leader. The City of Kingston, and the KFLA Public Health Unit have a system that sees quickly, talks fast, and heads off health problems faster than anyone else in Ontario. I’ve been dealing with flu assessment centres in Ontario these past few weeks, and Kingston was a leader all the way through. [...]
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