Before last year, when envisioning a potential earthquake in Turkey, many would automatically think of so...
Rapid Pandemic Risk Response: The Carbis Bay Declaration
With the U.K. taking on the presidency of the G7 group in 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted an in-person G7 summit from June 11 to 13 in Carbis Bay...
With the U.K. taking on the presidency of the G7 group in 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted an in-person G7 summit from June 11 to 13 in Carbis Bay...
Article / 3 years ago
RMS Enables Organizations to “Flatten the Curve” From Acute and Chronic Disasters With Modern Risk Technology
The world is experiencing the extraordinary crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the never-ending climate crisis and escalating cyber threats...
The world is experiencing the extraordinary crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the never-ending climate crisis and escalating cyber threats...
Article / 4 years ago
Climbing Out of “Lockdown”: The Great Restart
Having successfully reduced human contact and viral transmission through shelter-at-home policies, governments at different stages in Europe, the U.S. and Asia...
Having successfully reduced human contact and viral transmission through shelter-at-home policies, governments at different stages in Europe, the U.S. and Asia...
Article / 4 years ago
Risk and COVID-19
Perhaps the most difficult and unfamiliar feature of the coronavirus pandemic is how the associated risk is rising rapidly through time. We are all used to...
Perhaps the most difficult and unfamiliar feature of the coronavirus pandemic is how the associated risk is rising rapidly through time. We are all used to...
Article / 4 years ago
Containment of COVID-19 Is the Best-Case Scenario
Dr. Tedros Adhonom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has insisted that containment of COVID-19 is feasible, and must remain...
Dr. Tedros Adhonom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has insisted that containment of COVID-19 is feasible, and must remain...
Article / 4 years ago
Video: Dr. Robert Muir-Wood discusses the coronavirus with the BBC
How can governments around the world find the balance between protecting public health and the health of the economy?...
How can governments around the world find the balance between protecting public health and the health of the economy?...
Article / 4 years ago
Coronavirus Event Cancellation Risk
In the spring of 2003, RMS pioneered quantitative event cancellation risk analysis with a study for FIFA in respect of the 2006 World Cup in Germany...
In the spring of 2003, RMS pioneered quantitative event cancellation risk analysis with a study for FIFA in respect of the 2006 World Cup in Germany...
Article / 4 years ago
Clues on the Coronavirus Contagion
Epidemiologists are disease detectives. The investigative insights of a forensic epidemiologist are exemplified by Sherlock Holmes, whose creator, Arthur Conan...
Epidemiologists are disease detectives. The investigative insights of a forensic epidemiologist are exemplified by Sherlock Holmes, whose creator, Arthur Conan...
Article / 4 years ago
Spread of the New Coronavirus in the Year of the Rat
When the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was first identified as a coronavirus in 2012, the case fatality rate was very high at 35 percent; but...
When the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was first identified as a coronavirus in 2012, the case fatality rate was very high at 35 percent; but...
Article / 4 years ago
New Lethal Coronavirus In China
In this the centennial year of the great 1918 pandemic, I was invited to speak at a special symposium on emerging infectious diseases at the renowned Pasteur...
In this the centennial year of the great 1918 pandemic, I was invited to speak at a special symposium on emerging infectious diseases at the renowned Pasteur...
Article / 4 years ago