Color-coding for COVID-19 Management: An Idea Whose Time has Come
In: Journal of homeland security and emergency management, Band 17, Heft 2
ISSN: 1547-7355
Abstract
COVID-19 has awakened the country to a heightened state of daily, ongoing readiness for pandemic risk. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Government released a color-coded alert system to inform the public and support appropriate response, but the system was of little utility to most people. In the context of pandemic, where significant modifications to daily life are required and which change with local and regional transmission risk, the time for a color-coded alert system may have finally come