Impact America has been designing and implementing pandemic plans, training, exercising and continuous improvement programs for F500 companies, K-12 Schools, Universities and Governments since 1999. For our US clients we follow best practiced from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Institute of Health (NIH). For our international clients we also include best practices from the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Impact America's COVID-19 and Pandemic Planning Programs follow the four phases of FEMA’s effective Emergency Management Methodology including 1. Prevention/Mitigation, 2. Preparedness, 3. Response and 4. Recovery. We also add in a fifth phase which is our 5. Continuous Improvement phase to continuously review your existing COVID-19/Pandemic Program, close gaps, continuously monitor and make adjustments in your plans based on the threat and situational awareness the impact of the threat has directly and indirectly on your organizations.

Impact America also follows the CDC’s Continuum of Pandemic Phases

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From left to right, the curve shows the increase and decrease of the global average of pandemic cases across four phases of the pandemic continuum. The four phases include “interpandemic,” “alert,” “pandemic,” and “transition.” The phases in the continuum also overlap with the stages of our pandemic risk assessment. From left to right, the three stages of the risk assessment include “preparedness,” “response,” and “recovery.” Starting at the far left of the continuum, the global average of cases are lowest during the “interpandemic” phase, which is during the “preparedness” risk assessment stage. The global average of cases greatly increase through the “alert” and “pandemic” phases, with the greatest global average of cases occurring in the “pandemic” phase. These two phases overlap with the “response” stage of the risk assessment. The global average of cases greatly decreases moving into the “transition” phase, which overlaps with the “recovery” stage of the risk assessment. The figure shows a slight increase of the global average of cases during the “transition” phase, indicating a possible second wave of pandemic cases. The global average of cases decreases until it levels out to the original global average of cases, returning to the “interpandemic” phase, which overlaps with the “preparedness” risk assessment stage.