Personal Emergency Planning (Coronavirus - COVID-19 Edition)

define key emergency management terms from the individual and family level to disaster, catastrophe, and crisis management, and explain mutual aid and 72-hour kits.

Identify and apply the FEMA five-phase emergency cycle—prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery—and the related risk management framework to plan for and recover from emergencies.

Explore the taxonomy of emergency types, distinguishing natural disasters from weather and geological risks, with examples like cyclones, tsunamis, floods, wildfires, and epidemics.

Differentiate intentional and unintentional emergency types, including mass shootings, civil unrest, and terrorism, and summarize how WMDs, radiological and nuclear exposure, and infrastructure failures shape response and resilience.

Explore FEMA's eight principles of emergency management, including comprehensive planning, risk-driven decision making, and integrated, collaborative, and coordinated actions across prevention, response, and recovery.

Build your home emergency kit with three days of nonperishable food and one gallon of water per day per person, plus essential tools, clothing, shelter, and power plans.

Assemble a comprehensive emergency kit with lighting, communication devices, power sources, cash, offline media, essential documents, hygiene items, medical supplies, and transport options.

Offers a car based kit similar to a bug out bag, including jumper cables, a handheld jump starter, flares and cones, a flashlight, first aid, non-perishable food, water, and clothing.

Compare the bug out bag with the car based kit and 72-hour kit, tracing military origins, common names, and practical evacuation uses from the lecture caption.

Carry an everyday emergency kit with cell phone, keys, wallet, emergency and medical information, water, and a multipurpose tool; start with a 72-hour and first aid kit.

Explain the differences between pandemic, epidemic, and endemic, outline epidemiology and public health roles, and discuss how disease spread, models, and factors like asymptomatic carriers shape prevention.

Learn practical covid-19 prevention at home, including hand washing for 20 seconds, sanitizer use, not touching your face, social distancing, surface disinfection, and basic preparedness.

Explore FEMA's seventy five military resources in emergency management, a document outlining civil support to authorities, emergency declarations, mutual aid, incident command, and National Guard roles.

Learn how military resources support civilian emergency planning, using the National Incident Management System and National Response Framework to coordinate medical aid, water, and disaster response.

Explore how Posse Comitatus, uniformed services, and military resources support civilian emergency planning, and study the National Incident Management System and National Response Framework.

Explore the 2018 national biodefense strategy, deter, detect, degrade, disrupt, and deny threats from nature or man, and the USDA and DHS roles in planning and response.

Explore the FEMA distribution management plan for emergency supply chains, end-to-end resource management, and hub-and-spoke logistics, including risk assessment, hazard management, and points of distribution.

Explore the National Response Framework and its link to NIMS, detailing how the 15 emergency support functions and community lifelines guide planning, coordination, and private sector collaboration.

Examine the national response framework and its five stages—prevention, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation—and how federal and agency roles coordinate through interagency and regional plans for disaster management.

Learn how the national incident management system governs incident command, resource and information management, with prepackaged mutual aid, incident facilities, and state and federal coordination.

Compare situation reports and status reports and the essential elements of information for a unified emergency system. Understand the incident command structure and logistics units, with volunteer liability protections.

Explain how defense support of civil authorities integrates homeland defense and homeland security, detailing permissible military roles, interagency collaboration, and critical infrastructure protection during emergencies.

Analyze how domestic disaster response integrates military and civilian authorities, covering the use of force continuum, Stafford and Economy Acts. Explore JP 3-28, PSYOP, and FEMA operations.

Present the national strategy for pandemic influenza with the three pillars—prepare and communication, surveillance and detection, and response and containment—outlining roles across government and private sectors.

Explore influenza preparedness: rapid, 60-minute diagnostics, standardized testing, egg-based and cell-based vaccine production, surge capacity, domestic manufacturing, and dose strategies to secure stockpiles for outbreak containment.

Explore the HHS pandemic influenza plan, detailing oseltamivir treatment and prophylaxis, vaccine and antiviral stockpile priorities, and early transmission control through tracing and social distancing.

Apply low-cost, sustainable social distancing such as school closures and limits on gatherings. Explore quarantine concepts like cordon sanitaire and isolation to delay and contain spread.

Assess geopolitical factors shaping travel bans and alliances with the US, Ireland, the UK, and Canada. Outline triage, rationing, and surge planning with medical reserve corps and field medical stations.

Stockpile ventilators, masks, gowns, and testing resources; weigh costs and ethical frameworks; coordinate surveillance, animal health, and law enforcement in pandemic response.

Review the twenty seventeen update to the HHS pandemic influenza plan. It covers seven domains, vaccine readiness, tabletop exercises, crisis standards of care, and risk tools to flatten the curve.

Examine the 2005 HHS pandemic influenza plan, its 400 pages of appendices, and the core 40-page strategy, highlighting moderate versus severe scenarios, hospitalizations, and social distancing.

Balance health impact with societal and economic costs while detailing antiviral stockpiles, post-exposure prophylaxis, treatment timing, and national influenza surveillance networks, lab diagnostics, and specimen collection.

Explore hospital surge planning, including triggers for elective surgery cancellation, ICU and ventilator capacity tracking, six-to-eight-week consumable stockpiles, mortuary logistics, and PPE protocols, plus transmission basics.

Explore clinical guidelines and management algorithms for covid-19, including testing decisions, antiviral prophylaxis, pneumonia severity assessment, and quarantine and community containment strategies.

Explore isolation in community-based facilities and travel-related spread controls, including cdc quarantine stations at major airports and other ports of entry, with lessons from past outbreaks and travel restrictions.