EFFECTS OF A BIOLOGICAL PANDEMIC”
EFFECTS OF A BIOLOGICAL PANDEMIC”
“TRAINING AND A MOVIE: THE
EFFECTS OF A BIOLOGICAL PANDEMIC”
This workshop is intended to showcase
the ‘unrealized’ effects a biological outbreak will have on a community
and to prompt discussion amongst attendees as to what planning and preparation
needs to be done beyond the basic State Health Department plans to dispense
medication.
We will begin with a brief training
overview of some known biological agents: their classification, signs and
symptoms, and what makes them a threat. The review will be followed by a
modified-tabletop exercise using scenes from a movie that accurately depicts
the ripple effects of a biological outbreak as the scenarios for our group
discussions. We will track an unknown biological agent from its initial
appearance in ‘patient zero’ to its explosion as a worldwide pandemic. As the
movie progresses, we will stop it, look at the events that have taken place up
to that point and discuss what effect these events would have on Prince Georges
County and the surrounding areas.
Who should attend this workshop? …
Government officials and other community leaders, law enforcement, fire, first
responders, health department and medical personnel, business leaders, CERT
members & other community response organizations … basically
everyone!.
If/when this happens, it will truly take a community
working together to make it through.
