A contingency plan for a flu pandemic was drawn up in 1997 that included the possible closure of schools, widespread vaccination and restricting global travel.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – UK Health chiefs believed a pandemic was “imminent” in 1997 and drew up a contingency plan that included a mass vaccination programme and closing borders.
Australia s pre-pandemic plan from 2019 was designed around a major flu outbreak, not Covid-19. Four health experts tell Daily Australia what we can learn after two years of the current pandemic.
Shutting down businesses and schools felt to many like a natural response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the extended coronavirus lockdown of 2020 did not. 22.12.2021, Sputnik International
How dangerous is Covid? Two recent articles (see here and here) on mises.org suggest that what we are witnessing is hysteria. Both articles examined age-standardized mortality statistics for the US and UK respectively. In the UK, the 2020 mortality rate was at a similar level to 2008, and for the US the mortality rate was at around the same rate as 2004. The obvious question