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Old 31-03-2020, 21:00   #1623
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Interesting to see what's at the top of the National Risk Register since 2008 with a reasonably high chance of a occurrring and a high impact if it did. It's on page 5 - pandemic influenza.
https://assets.publishing.service.go...k_register.pdf
Which is why there is a bunch of documents labelled "UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy" started in 2011.
Link
By it's very definition a Pandemic is going to have a high and wide-spread impact.
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2.29 Experts agree that there is a high probability of
another influenza pandemic occurring, but it is
impossible to forecast its exact timing or the precise
nature of its impact. Based on historical information,
scientific evidence and modelling, the following
impacts are predicted:
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