2 Resilience Management during the Pandemic Outbreak of COVID-19
2.1 An overview of the pandemic outbreak
The fear of pandemic outbreaks is not only contemporary; people have always had to fear deadly pandemics. Rather than focusing on whether there will be an outbreak, when new outbreaks will happen is the primary concern.1 The real problem with influenza pandemics is that they are unforeseeable but recurring events that can negatively affect societies worldwide.2 They cannot be prevented because they are naturally recurring biological phenomena. There have been several significant disease outbreaks and pandemics recorded in human history, including the Spanish Flu, the Hong Kong Flu, severe acute respiratory ...
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