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Maintaining Telecommunications During the Pandemic:
A Unique Problem
A TeleContinuity White Paper
www.telecontinuity.com
Abstract
BCP, COOP and telecommunications planners and executives face a different challenge when planning and preparing for an influenza pandemic. The H5N1 bird “flu” virus is of immediate concern because it has already shown itself in parts of Asia and Europe. There is fear that it may bring sickness and death on an unimaginable scale, devastate cities and towns, and bring business to a halt. While the H5N1 virus has killed only a few people, there is great fear that it will mutate into a form which is easily transmissible between humans resulting in a global pandemic. The 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic swept around the globe resulting in 40 Million dead in just three years. The government estimates the potential for this flu pandemic to be up to 207,000 deaths, 776,000 hospitalizations and outpatients and a staggering $166 Billion in economic losses.
This White Paper discusses the practical problems of maintaining operations when people can no longer meet in their usual locations and may have to work from multiple locations or homes. This paper examines the current telecommunications infrastructure, its weaknesses and the keys to a successful telecommunications plan that has the flexibility and survivability to maintain a company over many months of dislocation.
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