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level plans should match these objectives: stopping, slowing, or otherwise limiting
the spread of a pandemic; mitigating disease suffering and death; sustaining the
infrastructure; and mitigating impact to the economy and functioning of society
(Figure 17.7).
Training participants and exercising pandemic preparedness plans is critical to
the ultimate success of implementing those plans. In the balance is the protection
of citizens but ultimately the recovery of society.
We have seen that pandemic preparedness is not only a government construct
but also a process that must involve nongovernmental entities (nonprofits, faith-
based organizations, and businesses) to reach a level of preparedness that enables
resilience to be woven into the process of mitigating effects and accelerating
recovery.
Preparedness is neither an easy nor a quick process. Pandemics may pose one of
the more difficult scenarios for planners, but also may be one of the most important—
another pandemic is most certainly on its way.
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