Sole supply issues (supply outages, lack of palatable formulations, resultant out-of-pocket payments for alternatives and vulnerability as a result of a disaster) were reported to be continuing, despite there being penalties for suppliers.
During his visit to the Gulf Coast, Mr. Obama had kept up his criticism of BP, saying the oil company had paid billions of dollars in stock dividends and spent millions on image advertising while people who suffered from the disaster were reporting difficulties getting claims paid.
In a visit to the Gulf Coast on Friday, his second in a week, President Obama kept up his criticism of BP, saying the oil company had paid billions of dollars in stock dividends and spent millions on image advertising while people who suffered from the disaster were reporting difficulties getting claims paid.
What has changed is that telecommunications and media coverage now ensure that such disasters are reported from ever more far-flung places.Special report Living dangerously Freud, finance and folly The price of prudence Too clever by half Financial WMD?
The data are also influenced by many factors which change with time, such as the way in which disasters are reported, population growth, advances in modern science, and changes in societal resilience.
At the level of drug supply, manufacturing difficulties, unavailability of raw materials and natural disasters are reported [ 4, 5].
Disaster type was reported in order to examine whether there was an association with the type of assessment used.
A series of numbers leaped out of the media this week, both of which represent disasters -- yet neither of which was reported in a way that would elicit compassion or a fundraising campaign with or without a media event.
It was, reported HuffPo, a "hair disaster".
