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IAEM
IAEM-Canada will hold a webinar on today, Mar. 19, 2020, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT, on “Pandemic Risk Communication and Business Continuity Planning.” Learn how your organization might apply science-based risk communication tools to your response to pandemic events such as the COVID-19 outbreak. The webinar on pandemic preparedness will be held by the Centre for Crisis & Risk Communications. The information shared in this webinar will help with the execution of you plan or get you started in the right direction if you do not have a plan, by showing how high-stress, high-concern situations change the rules of communications. Emergency managers will join the Centre for Crisis & Risk Communications to share important tips on how to develop a pandemic business continuity plan. Register online.
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IAEM
The IAEM-USA Region 4 Conference scheduled for Apr. 26-29, 2020, in Huntsville, Alabama, has been cancelled. All registrants who have paid the registration fee will receive a refund in the same method of payment. All registrants are encouraged to immediately contact the hotels and airlines regarding any reservations that may have been made. We are sorry for this inconvenience.
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Everbridge
With severe weather season intensifying, counties and cities across Florida share their perspective on hurricane preparedness and the benefits of leveraging Everbridge as their statewide mass notification platform, including improved situational intelligence, communication, and mutual aid. Watch Now.
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IAEM
The IAEM Poster Showcase is an event open to students, academics and practitioners. It is an opportunity to share an individual’s work, research project, practice or general findings to others at the IAEM 68th Annual Conference & EMEX in Long Beach, California, Nov. 13-18, 2020. Participants can enter in a competitive or non-competitive division. Find out all the requirements and how to submit your abstract in the Poster Showcase Guidance on the conference website.
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Global News
The Quebec government is advising it will not be able to set up emergency shelters for displaced citizens in the case of spring flooding amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
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IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Mar. 17 issued a memorandum and fact sheet addressing procurements made during exigent or emergency circumstances such as the COVID-19 outbreak. FEMA recognizes that noncompetitive procurements may be necessary to save lives, to protect property and public health, and to ensure public safety, as well as to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe. The memorandum and fact sheet provide answers and guidance surrounding the need for such measures.
Optimum Seismic
California just experienced its deadliest and most destructive wildfire, ever. Nearly 14,000 homes, 530 commercial structures and 4,300 other buildings were destroyed in November when the Cal Fire ravaged the Butte County landscape, incinerating entire communities like the town of Paradise in its wake.
The devastation of lives and livelihoods lost is unfathomable. So too is the sheer scope of work needed to clear the charred debris before recovery can ever start.
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E&E News
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is facing a major test of its capacity as it begins responding to the novel coronavirus while facing dozens of ongoing disasters and potential major flooding from rivers and lakes across the United States.
FEMA has been playing a secondary role so far with the coronavirus pandemic, acting in support of the Department of Health and Human Services, which leads the federal response.
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IAEM
FEMA is extending the application period for the National Advisory Council from Mar. 13 to Mar. 27. This is to allow individuals who were unable to apply due to the COVID-19 response to submit their applications. Visit the FEMA website for instructions on how to apply. For questions, contact the National Advisory Council.
Roll Call
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the massive stimulus package the Trump administration is proposing would pump $1 trillion into the coronavirus-ravaged U.S. economy, through a combination of direct tax relief and grants and loans to struggling businesses.
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The Hill
President Trump announced Wednesday that he will invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA), which would allow the administration to force American industry to manufacture medical supplies that are in short supply in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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Route Fifty
Large numbers of people living in close proximity, many of them elderly or living with chronic diseases. Limited access to hand soap and sanitizer. Insufficient infrastructure for medical testing and treatment. If ever there were a place designed for the rapid spread of coronavirus, it would be a prison.
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Homeland Security News Wire
The number of COVID-19 cases in other parts of the world yesterday topped China’s total, fueled by surges in Europe — especially in Italy — and Iran, plus outbreaks picking up steam in other nations, including the United States, where New York City yesterday shuttered its schools and the Federal Reserve slashed its interest rate again.
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The Japan Times
Five years ago, on March 18, 2015, then United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared that “sustainability begins in Sendai” as he launched the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
With the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the conference laid the foundations for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a raft of agreements followed, including the Paris Agreement on climate change and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The Conversation
Amid all the planning, and a growing sense of panic, the impact of the spread of COVID-19 among homeless people is not being widely discussed. It should, however, be of special concern to local officials.
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Government Executive
As the coronavirus spreads into more and more communities, public health officials are placing responsibility on individuals to help slow the pandemic. Social distancing is the way to do it. Geriatrician Thomas Perls explains how this crucial tool works.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Suspensions of campus operations, accompanying shifts from in-person to online classes, have raised concerns about the effects on nonacademic workers and those employed by independent contractors.
Industry watchers, though, say that despite the chaos experienced by faculty members and students as campuses close, there has not been a rush to issue pink slips to those workers.
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Campus Safety
Although many school districts across the nation have announced they are closing schools for two or three weeks in response to COVID-19, according to new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), schools might need to close for eight weeks or longer to more effectively mitigate the impacts of the virus.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Public health officials and medical professionals have been advocating for rapid and decisive efforts to “flatten the curve.” Rather than letting the virus quickly rampage through the population and burn itself out fast, the idea is to spread all those infections out over a longer period of time.
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Emergency Management
First responders and healthcare professionals recently discussed recent recommendations to keep the community well and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Emergency Management
First responders are following the guidelines from the CDC like everyone else about how to avoid becoming infected with the coronavirus, but diligence and using and disposing of equipment properly is critical.
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Dark Reading
You can think of working from home much like someone moving into an entirely new environment. Your patterns of work might be optimized for working in an office, and they might not quite fit at home. You can think of this post as moving you from accommodating yourself to including yourself — reducing the friction that misspends your energy just to exist.
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Emergency Management
South Louisiana has collective experience in going through catastrophes. It also has collective experience in not going through them.
Inevitably, the rapidly escalating coronavirus situation has evoked memories of Hurricane Katrina.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Even if the international response to COVID-19 has been relatively strong, it may rightfully be considered too little too late, with the epidemic already underway. That’s a mistake we shouldn’t repeat.
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IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Committee seeks article submissions on “Black Swan Event: Pandemics” for the April 2020 issue of the IAEM Bulletin. The deadline for article submissions has been extended to Friday, Mar. 27, 2020. As emergency managers, we learn from what has happened in the past to help us plan for the future. When it comes to a pandemic, we can look at what we have learned in order to be prepared. Articles could look at past incidents that offer lessons in how to best prepare, such as H1N1, SARS, MERS, or Spanish flu. Are travel bans effective in slowing the spread of a pandemic in our global environment? What lessons did we learn from previous infectious disease outbreaks that should/could be applied today? What do we advise citizens who want to be prepared? How do we prepare? How do we respond without destroying our economy and our social structure? Consider the improvements you have experienced and witnessed, as well as the failures. There is no more logical time to think about this kind of event, since the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread. Article length is 750-1,500 words, and author guidelines are online. A full list of 2020 special focus issue topics is posted here. Direct questions to Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson.
IAEM
Due to the demands of COVID-19, certification candidates concerned about meeting a deadline in the AEM®/CEM® application/exam process should contact IAEM HQ at info@iaem.com. We recognize that your priority and focus is responding to the pandemic at this time, and IAEM staff will provide a response and further details to each request received.
IAEM
If you are interested in becoming a commissioner for the IAEM AEM®/CEM® Program, check out the application details on the IAEM website, including new incentives for commissioners. Applications are due by June 1.
Homeland Security Today
China’s experience in containing the spread of the new coronavirus could serve as a lesson for other countries now facing the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official with the World Health Organization (WHO) has told United Nation (UN) News in an in-depth interview.
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Homeland Security Today
How does a country successfully deal with COVID-19? A new report from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) says those looking to learn how to deal with the outbreak could do worse than look to Taiwan.
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Reuters via Manila Bulletin
South Korea on Sunday reported 76 new coronavirus cases and three deaths, marking the first time in over three weeks that new cases have dropped to double-digits, as President Moon Jae-in declared the hardest hit provinces “special disaster zones."
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Central News Agency via Taiwan News
The earthquake warning system will work faster from April 6, when information about strong temblors will be released within 10 seconds after their occurrence to buy the public more time to respond, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said.
This means that people will be notified about earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.5 or above on the Richter scale five seconds faster than the current standard, CWB Director-General Yeh Tien-chiang said during a legislative session.
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The Guardian
Expenditure on flooding will be doubled, the chancellor has announced in the budget, but analysis has revealed that the figure is less generous than it seems.
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Homeland Security News Wire
In a stark and urgent COVID-19 risk assessment update, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said that, in a few weeks or even days, other countries in the region may face huge surges that mirror those of China and Italy.
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The Guardian
What’s the best way to respond to a global health emergency? For countries like Italy, Spain, South Korea and Denmark, the answer is closing schools and public spaces to limit infection. Until recently, the UK government appeared to believe that such a cure could be worse than the disease itself.
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World Bank via Prevention Web
Opened State Archives reveal how decisions taken by the government in 1977 have created a legacy of weakened buildings in Bucharest, exacerbating its high earthquake risk. Fortunately, Romanians are working hard to raise awareness, strengthen buildings, and expand resilience to create thriving and safer communities.
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Homeland Security News Wire
As COVID-19 cases continued to surge in Europe, European Union (EU) leaders approved a plan to close its external borders for the next 30 days. And as disease activity escalated in other parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned about rapidly evolving outbreaks in its Southeast Asia region, which includes some nations in southern Asia, like India.
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The National
THE Falkland Islands are at risk from tsunamis caused by underwater landslides, according to new research.
Scientists from Heriot-Watt University and the British Geological Survey found evidence of prehistoric submarine landslides in the Falkland Trough.
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BBC News
The deadly coronavirus has now hit all 50 states in the U.S. as West Virginia reported its first case of the infection on Tuesday.
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USA Today
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Utah on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, knocking out power and rattling residents already shaken up by the coronavirus pandemic.
About 32,000 people lost electricity in the Salt Lake City Area, utility Rocky Mountain Power said.
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