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Concurrent Disaster Response Success Story

This success story describes how the Environmental Division of the Town of Addison, Texas faced the challenges of a winter storm during COVID-19 in the context of ensuring food safety, public health, and providing warming stations and power to a...

Addressing Critical Success Factors for Improving Concurrent Emergency Management: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

This journal article discusses the challenges in managing natural disasters and emergencies that occur during a pandemic. It identifies the critical success factors having a major role in effective management of concurrent emergencies and evalua...

All-Hazards Incident Management Teams Association - Considerations in COVID-19

This FEMA resource guide shares best practices to support incident management and contains:Key ConsiderationsDetails of how all-hazards incident management teams have been involved in the COVID-19 responsePreliminary Best PracticesRecommended fo...

Dual Disaster Handbook – Flooding

This is a comprehensive handbook to help local officials and emergency managers address dual disaster scenarios during the COVID-19 pandemic. This handbook contains: Recommendations for Local Leaders Flood Response During COVID-19 Checklis...

Ensuring Civil Rights in Multiple Disasters During COVID-19

This column discusses best practices to ensure civil rights in multiple disasters during the COVID-19 pandemic and includes: Effective Communication Access Inclusive Planning, Response, and Recovery Language and Physical accessibility E...

COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Continuity of Operations

This is a FEMA resource of key findings and considerations on infrastructure maintenance and services for communities during a pandemic and contains:Key ConsiderationsLessons LearnedInfrastructure ConsiderationsRecommendations for Local Governme...

FEMA COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance

This operational guidance plan offers emergency management guidance at all levels of government. It includes:Response PlanningRecovery PlanningRecommended for Emergency response and preparedness planners.Download Guide...

FEMA Hurricane Pandemic Plan

This is a guide for hurricane response during a pandemic and contains: Hurricane Guide Hurricane Response Recommended use as a guide to train environmental public health professionals working with disaste...

Dual Disaster Checklist: Flooding and COVID-19

This resource is a dual disaster checklist that can be utilized to support the preparedness of local leaders and contains: Action steps to prepare Checklist for local leaders Recommended for environmental public health professionals, publi...

Guidance for General Population Disaster Shelters COVID-19

This resource assesses best practices for the general population to use during emergency shelters during COVID-19 pandemic and contains:Opening disaster sheltersShelter prioritizationShelter health staffRecommended for local officials to underst...

Healthcare Coalition Engagement in COVID-19 Assessment

This resource lays out the healthcare concern associated with response, staffing and providing services during the pandemic. This includes: Field Project Officer Survey Analysis Environmental Scan Focus Groups Recommended for Environme...

NGA Memo on Planning for Concurrent Emergencies

This memo is for planning support during emergency preparedness. It offers standard procedures, recommendations, and best practices for emergency operations and planning. This resource includes: Emergency Powers and Authorities Capacity of R...

Safety in Emergency Shelters in Low Resource, Non-U.S. Settings

This document offers resources on emergency sheltering during the COVID-19 pandemic in non-U.S. settings and contains:Recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during evacuation shelteringEmergency Shelter Information ResponseRecommended...

The Impact of Natural Disasters on the Spread of COVID-19

This journal article discusses es how natural disasters and infectious disease disrupts human health and livelihood. It modeled a concurrent disaster scenario on the impact of infection related fatalities. This resource contains information on: ...

A Community Case Study on Geographic, Environmental, and Social Health Disparities in COVID-19 Disease

This article examines the socioeconomic, geographic, and environmental vulnerabilities within a rural area. The article reviews that rural areas are particularly susceptible to the continuum of expected COVID-19 disease and related outcomes. Rur...

A Multi-Hazards Earth Science Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Potential for Concurrent and Cascading Crises

This article explores an epidemic model with a concurrent disaster event, which predicts a greater infection rate following the events during the pre-infection rate peaks period compared with post peak events. This highlights the need for enacti...

A Rapid Assessment of Disaster Preparedness Needs and Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article provides a rapid qualitative assessment method to determine the impact of the pandemic on preparedness and response to natural disasters and the impact of past experiences with natural disasters in responding to the pandemic. This a...

An Eye on COVID: Hurricane Preparedness at a COVID-19 Alternative Care Site

This article shares the process of establishing a Medical Monitoring Station (MMS) in downtown New Orleans to maximize patient safety and continuity of operations during a real-world event. In 2020, the state of Louisiana activated the MMS that ...

Bottom-Up Citizen Engagement for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management

This article describes how there is a need to advance bottom-up engagement in health disaster and emergency management programs, policies and research. The article also highlights that all disasters and health emergencies start at the local leve...

Cascading Risks of COVID-19 Resurgence During an Active 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season

This article reviews risks of hurricanes to coastal states during the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Protecting the population from hurricane hazards revolves around evacuation and sheltering individuals. However, e...

Challenges for the Disaster Workforce During a Compound Hurricane-Pandemic

This article identifies how emergency management planning for both the changing dynamics of COVID-19 and hurricane season may change under a compound threat. COVID-19 and the increase of natural disasters occurring pushes new considerations to b...

Changing Vulnerability for Hurricane Evacuation During a Pandemic

This article examines data from workshops involving emergency management and public health experts to support planning for hurricane evacuation and sheltering. This resource includes: Policy integration findings Expanded protections for popula...

Responding to Simultaneous Crises: Communications and Social Norms of Mask Behavior During Wildfires and COVID-19

This article looks into the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for co-occurring wildfires and the health risks that they pose. While there are behaviors that can be implemented to reduce the negative impacts, government agencies and public heal...

Compound Risks of Hurricane Evacuation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

This article models how a hurricane evacuation from four different counties in a state would impact COVID-19 case levels. The number of COVID-19 cases produced by the evacuation is influenced by the ability of destination counties meeting the ne...

Compounding Hazards and Intersecting Vulnerabilities

This report discusses study findings that measure how COVID-19 affected extreme heat vulnerability during the summer of 2020. This resource includes: Examination of socio-demographic characteristics and pandemic related factors Examined vulne...

Concurrent Threats and Disasters: Modeling and Managing Risk and Resilience

This article provides a literature review of how policymakers were prompted to reassess operations and management strategies that support society’s critical functions like infrastructure, healthcare services, supply chains, and emergency respons...

COVID-19 and Wildfires: Concurrent Disasters and Risk Communication in B.C.

This report is based on a qualitative study examining health communications during concurrent disasters and the connection with decision-making. This resource includes: Research questions Focus area Methods Preliminary Findings Recommended...

COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Natural Hazards Preparedness

This FEMA resource shares recommendations and best practices for state, local, tribal, and territorial officials when managing simultaneous risks posed by COVID-19 and natural hazards. This resource includes key considerations around:Public mess...

COVID-19 Crisis Communications: The Challenge for Environmental Organizations

This article examines the ways environmental organizations amended their crisis communications to underscore their relevance to crises and their role in problem-solving. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. environmental organizations...

COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research

This webpage shares the resource list of the Natural Hazard’s Center COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences. The working groups focus on a variety of issues and advancements in methods, ethics, and empirical topics related...

COVID-19, the Built Environment, and Health

This article discusses features of the built environment that affect the risk of COVID-19 and identify elements of the pandemic response with implications for the built environment and for long-term public health. This resource includes: Influe...

Data-Driven Operation of the Resilient Electric Grid: A Case of COVID-19

This article explores the resilience of power grids in the face of pandemics and various machine learning tools that can be helpful to augment human operators are discussed by reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on power grid operations and actions...

Disaster Behavioral Health Through the Lens of COVID-19

This article reviews the history and framework of emergency planning and response and addresses aspects related to COVID-19. Recommendations for how best to incorporate behavioral health responses into future disaster emergency planning are offe...

Dueling Emergencies: Flood Evacuation Ridesharing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This paper examines the complexity behind the decision-making relating to rideshare during an emergency like COVID-19. Sharing resources during disaster events like vehicles, supports the expansion of critical capacity and enables inclusive disa...

Environmental Justice and Natural Disasters/COVID-19 Virtual Town Hall Meetings

The Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice hosted three virtual regional town hall meetings to gain a better understanding of how natural disasters and COVID-19 impact minority, low-income, overburdened, and underserved commu...

Excess of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Due to Fine Particulate Matter Exposure During the 2020 Wildfires in the United States

This article analyzes data on PM2.5, the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, and other confounders for 92 western U.S. counties affected by 2020 wildfires. It includes estimates of the association between short-term exposure to PM2.5 and the ep...

FDA COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery and Preparedness Plan Initiative: Summary Report

This report describes ongoing and potential prospective actions to strengthen FDA's COVID-19 response and build resilience to respond to future emergencies. As the pandemic has presented new challenges for the entire healthcare community and gov...

Individual Hurricane Evacuation Intentions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article discusses how individual hurricane preparedness is often influenced by the additional risk stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. A major finding was that the perceptions of flood and pandemic risks have opposite effects on preparedne...

Lessons from Concurrent Disasters: COVID-19 and Eight Hurricanes

This literary review investigates the relationship of local government leaders and emergency managers in Louisiana who worked collaboratively to respond to the global pandemic and an “epidemic” of landfalling hurricanes during 2020. The review s...

Maintaining Critical Infrastructure Resilience to Natural Hazards During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article describes alternative approaches that an energy organization can take to prepare for a concurrent disaster. Maintaining strong infrastructure during a natural disaster during COVID-19 is challenging and has the potential to disrupt ...

Compound Natural and Human Disasters: Managing Drought and COVID-19 to Sustain Global Agriculture and Food Sectors

This article describes how droughts and pandemics interact and identifies appropriate policies to address them individually and together. Disasters, both natural and human made disrupt global food supply chains when they occur at the same time a...

Mitigating the Twin Threats of Climate-Driven Atlantic Hurricanes and COVID-19 Transmission

This article looks at the co-occurrence of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season and the COVID-19 pandemic and how together they create a complex dilemma for protecting populations from the intersecting threats. This resource answers the questions ...

Navigating the Wildfire-Pandemic Interface

This article provides preliminary data that suggests the current challenges around collective action to address wildfire risk may be further exacerbated due to COVID-19, and that the pandemic has potentially widened existing disparities in house...

Nonprofit Capacity to Manage Hurricane-Pandemic Threat

This report examines the professional capacity of nonprofit organizations when responding to disasters occurring simultaneously. This report includes:Service delivery strategies for nonprofits during COVID-19Impact of natural disasters on nonpro...

Nonprofit Response to Concurrent and Consecutive Disaster Events in Puerto Rico

This article examines how nonprofit organizations are prominent stakeholders when working in community-level recovery efforts. It explores the role of nonprofits to facilitate dynamic information flows, fill in critical service delivery gaps lef...

Opinion: Compound Risks and Complex Emergencies Require New Approaches to Preparedness

This article calls for a need to redesign institutions to be proactive, agile, and socially just when confronted with compound risks that have become increasingly likely. This resource includes: Risk reduction framework and funding Pandemic l...

Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks Subjected to the Compound Events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic

This article combines wildfire data with varying courses of the spread of COVID-19 to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for managing patient demand. It shows that losing access to medical care is a function of the relative occur...

Planning for Concurrent Disasters During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This podcast offers support on how local, state, national, and federal officials can prepare for concurrent disasters. This resource specifically focuses on COVID-19 and natural disasters that occurred during the early stages of the pandemic. Th...