Coronavirus: Assessing Risk and Planning Initiatives — What’s Changed since the 2006 Bird Flu Scare?

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Coronavirus: Assessing Risk and Planning Initiatives — What’s Changed since the 2006 Bird Flu Scare?

If we, in RM and BCP, claim to address risk and BC, shouldn’t current assessments and plans be sufficient, with minor modification, to address the issue of a pandemic? If the answer is “No, we have to create new plans”, then we have missed the point of RM and BCP. Geary Sikich tells us more.

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