“…A comprehensive survey of influenza epidemics by two prominent epidemiologists infers that 'even with modern antiviral and antibacterial drugs, vaccines and preventive knowledge, the returning of a pandemic virus equivalent in pathogenicity to the virus of 1918 would kill over 100 million people worldwide' (Taubenberger & Morens, 2006). Health administrators in many countries have begun to draw on this information when developing pandemic preparedness plans (Chandra & Christensen, 2017;Gulland, 2016;Richard et al, 2009;Moxnes & Christophersen, 2008;Nickol & Kindrachuk, 2019).…”