In a piece that I wrote after the gun massacre in Las Vegas, I suggested that we end a truce over the Second Amendment — meaning not that we should go to war with the Second Amendment, but that the willingness of people who are concerned by the larger emergencies posed by the Trump Administration to defer arguing over the Second Amendment seems ill-founded.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global emergency posing a significant threat to people of all nations.
Rapid T-HAN distribution to travelers during a public health emergency poses unique logistic, legal, and political challenges.
Some lawmakers have begun pleading with the Bush administration for low-interest loans or grants until the crisis subsides, calling the situation a "state of emergency" comparable to that posed by a hurricane or an earthquake.
What's more chilling than the potential threats to civil liberties posed by the emergency powers he is grabbing on behalf of the president are the immediate practical threats these quick-fix legal schemes pose to the war effort.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday night ordered his homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, to convene an "emergency meeting" to assess the threat posed by the global attack, a senior administration official told Reuters.
From a massive surge in migration associated with the Syria conflict, to the Ebola outbreak which shut down schools for five million children and the Nepal earthquake which left one million out-of-school, the challenges posed by education in emergencies are clear.
"We ask every doctor contemplating further and escalated industrial action to pause and consider again the possible implications for patients, not only in terms of the immediate action but also in terms of the cumulative impact on patients and the additional risk posed by the withdrawal of emergency cover," its updated advice states.
Clean water and sanitation are amongst the most important emergency relief needs following most emergencies, in particular to protect against the serious health risks posed by diarrheal infections and diseases.
Emergency preparedness often focuses on a community's physical vulnerability the risk posed by hazards to structures and infrastructure and the people inhabiting these structures.
