CHAPTER 5: IS IT TOO LATE TO WRITE A PANDEMIC PLAN?
With the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine having been approved by the UK in early December 2020, the more optimistic among us who believe that COVID-19 will soon be just a distant memory, might feel justified in asking this question. Now to remind you that I am not a clinician or a virologist, but in my humble opinion as a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, COVID-19 is not the severe pandemic that the world was expecting.
That might surprise you, but as I explained in section 4.5, the various NRRs I have had sight of have all flagged a severe influenza pandemic as their biggest concern. While the custodians of these NRRs may well choose to re-examine their assessment of emerging ...
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