Transportation and COVID-19 – Practices from Other Disease Outbreaks

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Transportation Research Board (TRB). Published: 3/23/2020. This one-hour, 31-minute webinar identifies a holistic approach that transportation and health agencies may take to contain and manage the COVID-19 outbreak. Presenters discussed their experiences with other outbreaks such as H1N1 (2009 – a.k.a. “swine flu”) and avian influenza. They identified challenges COVID-19 has presented in their transportation systems and what their agencies are doing to adapt and mitigate risks for those at greatest risk of contracting the illness. (Video or Multimedia)
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