HONOLULU -- The U.S. Pacific Command (Pacom) is ahead of other major combatant commands in planning for a potential pandemic flu, but its preparations lag behind other countries in Asia and the ...

As news of the swine flu continues to dominate headlines, businesses are evaluating the potential impact on operations should the virus become a massive interruption. Control Risks, an international ...

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Wednesday released a sweeping new 96-page plan on COVID, marking a new era in the pandemic in which the virus is still circulating but can hopefully be managed so that ...

Equipment managers have commenced planning for 2021 as business activity slows and their organizations close out 2020. Most will find that the pandemic upended their organizations to significantly ...

We have learned that the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday raised their pandemic alert to Phase 5. Phase 5 is defined as “larger cluster(s) but human-to-human spread is still localized, ...

CMS released an official pandemic plan Jan. 12 that details the agency’s actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan will ensure CMS operations will continue to provide healthcare access ...

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that US hospital and health care systems were ill-prepared for the surge of patients who overwhelmed available health care resources. Although considerable research ...

Financial services will be the first industry to plan for a pandemic. Time for broader planning? On Sept. 11, 2001, the business continuity and the financial services industries met head-on. Long-term ...

“Disaster planning only makes sense within the context of existing society,” he says. The presumption is that pandemic would result in a catastrophic breakdown of society. I contend that a pandemic ...