The Importance Of WMD Incidents

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Great post this week, it was very interesting. In a WMD incident many government resources will be wasted unnecessarily. During these type of incidents and with the help of the mainstream media many people will panic and they will believe that they are also affected by the WMD incident when they were miles away from where it occurred. This will cause them to seek medical help, which will increase the burden of hospitals making it more difficult for healthcare workers to be able to provide care to the people that actually needs it. Another important factor that needs to be examined is that during a WMD attack incident a lot of healthcare workers and first responders could potentially develop physical or psychological injuries when they performed

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