Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat

PART IIPREPARING FOR THE INEVITABLE

 

“Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government or, for that matter, the state government will be able to step forward and come to their rescue at the final hour, will be tragically wrong, not because the government will lack a will, not because we will lack a collective wallet, but because there is no way that you can respond to every hometown in America at the same time.” – Michael Leavitt, United States of America Health and Human Services Secretary, 20 April 2006 (Clements, 2009, p. 248)