Socio-Economic impacts:
- Direct reduction in workforce of 15% to 35% due to illness
- Permanent loss of employees
- Psychological affects of loss and widespread pain and suffering
- Civil unrest, disorder, distressful behaviour
- Indirect loss of workforce due to:
- Fear of exposure at work
- Fear of exposure on public transit
- Caring for ill family members
- Caring for children at home due to school/day-care closures
- Inability to receive essential goods/materials due to the collapse
of transportation systems
- Inability of suppliers to deliver raw materials, supplies,
products etc.
- Inability of customers to place orders or honour accounts receivables
- Intervention of public health authorities and other regulatory
agencies
- Travel restrictions
- Control of anti-virals and vaccine distribution
- Imposition of social distancing measures (cancelling gatherings,
events, etc.)
- Use of your facility as a “non-traditional site”
for health care (schools, hotels, arenas, community centres,
warehouses) or temporary morgues
- Use of your personnel (trained volunteers or health care
workers), equipment or facilities
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What we now know:
What the experts predict:
Socio-Economic impacts:
A Pandemic is different:
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