As a Result of Lessons Learned, BNET Shifts Focus of Its Essential Employee Identification Program
As a Result of Lessons Learned, BNET Shifts Focus of Its Essential Employee Identification Program
Read MoreLeveraging Essential Employees for Business Continuity Planning in the Pandemic Era
Amid the surging COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there was a marked change in how events unfolded, mainly how the government and the private sector viewed and managed the event.
Read MoreCEAS JUST-IN-TIME Placards for Enhanced Access Control
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Business Network of Emergency Resources is pleased to announce an enhancement to its Corporate Emergency Access System (CEAS) that will allow program participants to self-print identification placards. The new CEAS placard document provides a just-in-time alternative to ordering, printing, and shipping physical access cards. Coordinators can easily select…
Read MoreCoronavirus Disease (COVID-19): General Guidance for Businesses and Non-Health Care Settings
March 13, 2020This document provides businesses and other non-health care settings with recommendations on how to help mitigate person-to-person transmission of COVID-19. This guidance may be updated as the situation is rapidly changing and new information becomes available. 2019 Novel Coronavirus Health officials are still learning about the spread and severity of a novel…
Read MoreJohns Hopkins CSSE Map of global COVID cases
MARCH 3, 2020 Johns Hopkins CSSE Map of global COVID cases allows users to zoom down to the local level for information on active cases. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Read MoreNational Business Emergency Operations Center (NBEOC) Activation Supporting HHS for COVID-19
MARCH 4, 2020The FEMA National Business Emergency Operations Center (NBEOC) is activated as part of the Interagency Crisis Action Task Force, supporting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Lead Federal Agency for our nation’s response to COVID-19. The Crisis Action Task Force and NBEOC are operating daily (M-Fri) from 0800-1700 hrs.…
Read MoreCorpnet Incident Brief- COVID-19, 03/02/20
See below for information supplied by NYC Health (DOHMH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM) regarding the current COVID-19 outbreak. Incident Summary Recently, a novel (new) coronavirus was detected in thousands of people worldwide, primarily in China. The infection, called COVID-19, can be spread from person to person. A “novel…
Read MoreSTATEMENT FROM MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO AND COMMISSIONER BARBOT ON FIRST CORONAVIRUS CASE
March 1, 2020 Statement from Mayor de Blasio:“From the beginning, we have said it was a matter of when, not if there would be a positive case of coronavirus in New York. Now our first case has been confirmed. The patient contracted the virus during recent travel and is isolated in her home under close monitoring. Our…
Read MoreCovid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted
February 28, 2020by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., H. Clifford Lane, M.D., and Robert R. Redfield, M.D. The latest threat to global health is the ongoing outbreak of the respiratory disease that was recently given the name Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19). Covid-19 was recognized in December 2019.1 It was rapidly shown to be caused by a novel coronavirus that…
Read MoreCDC HEALTH ADVISORY: identification and Testing of COVID-19 Persons Under Investigation (PUIs)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-criteria.html SITUATION SUMMARY:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and other state and local health departments (LHDs) continue to respond to an outbreak of COVID-19 respiratory disease. COVID-19 cases without known exposure or travel risk factors have been reported by state health departments in California, Oregon and…
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