Natural Disasters Won’t Stop Because of Pandemic, How To Be Prepared

ISLAMABAD, July 20 (online): As the COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated in the United States, state and county emergency management agencies are taking extra precautions to reduce coronavirus risks faced by people evacuating their homes because of hurricanes, wildfires, and other natural disasters.

Likewise, physicians and hospitals who treat millions of  for-seasonal influenza each year will have to face the prospect that each cough or sniffle could be something much more than the flu.

The coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes COVID-19 is thought to spread mainly from person to person Trusted Source through respiratory droplets produced when a person with the virus talks, sneezes, or coughs.

This makes it more challenging to set up shelters for people displaced by a natural disaster.

“Conventional hurricane evacuation shelters  such as a convention center are high-risk locations for spreading COVID-19 because these shelters typically have hundreds and sometimes thousands of people”.

In order to minimize these risks, it is recommend that state and local disaster agencies find shelter locations where people and families can be more isolated, such as in hotels, motels, or university dorms.

“Hotels provide a safer environment for families and individuals who have been evacuated, and we can provide services to them directly in their hotel room.

If local public health officials ask the American Red Cross to help set up a traditional emergency shelter, the organization will do so But they’ll put in place enhanced safety precautions to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.

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