Jan 15, 2019
In this episode Dr. John Pournoor, 3M’s Global Head of
Government Affairs Center of Excellence, returns to continue the
discussion on pandemics with a focus on how we prepare for the next
crisis before it arises.
A “pandemic” is defined by the Dictionary of Epidemiology as ‘an
epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing
international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of
people’. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics,
one of the most devastating pandemics was the Black Death,
resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in
1350. The most recent pandemics include the HIV pandemic as well as
the 1918 and 2009 H1N1 pandemics.