Pandemic Planning

Medical Care in Lima Peru

A severe pandemic is defined as a worldwide epidemic in a vulnerable population. Pandemic concerns have increased due to more recent disease outbreaks such as the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2002, H1N1 in 2009, MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012, and novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2019. Future disease outbreaks are likely but difficult to predict. The information in the articles below is intended to help wards, stakes, and families prepare for and respond to pandemics.

Pandemic Planning: Checklist for Ecclesiastical Leaders (PDF)

This checklist provides guidance for ecclesiastical leaders in preparing for a possible pandemic.
Counseling

Pandemic Planning: Home and Family Preparedness (PDF)

This fact sheet provides information on how families can prepare themselves for a possible pandemic.
Emergency Preparedness

Pandemic Planning: Personal Hygiene (PDF)

This fact sheet provides information on how to use good personal hygiene practices as a means to help control or minimize the spread of a possible pandemic virus among individuals and in the community.
Newborn Care

Pandemic Planning: Infectious Disease Cleanup (PDF)

This fact sheet provides information on how to perform cleanup measures in areas that may be contaminated by an infectious disease. The procedures outlined will help control or minimize the spread of possible diseases among individuals and in the community.
Hands at work with protective gloves.

Pandemic Planning: Personal Protective Equipment (PDF)

This fact sheet provides information on how individuals can protect themselves from an infectious disease during a pandemic through the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
Gloves

Pandemic Planning: Social Distancing (PDF)

This fact sheet provides information on how to utilize social distancing as a means to help control or minimize the spread of a possible pandemic among individuals and in the community.
College age 19 year old female best friends give each other air hugs, separated by seven feet, during the corona virus pandemic practicing social distancing, following orders that prohibit close interaction between people.

Pandemic Planning: Sheltering-in-Place (PDF)

This fact sheet provides information on how to prepare for “sheltering-in-place” in the event of a possible pandemic.
A black father and two boys are playing a board game together - in France

Pandemic Planning: Health Care Worker Preparedness (PDF)

This fact sheet provides information on how health care workers—such as missionary medical advisers, physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and others who may staff clinics and hospitals—can prepare themselves for a possible pandemic.
Nurse

Pandemic – Return to Church Checklist (PDF)

This checklist has been developed in order to help Church unit leaders manage a return to Church activity during the pandemic amid increased risk of the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
A man speaks to a congregation during a sacrament meeting. Members of the congregation wear face masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. From a series of photos of church members attending a sacrament meeting while maintaining social distancing.

Pandemic Guidelines for Overnight Activities (PDF)

These guidelines have been developed to help leaders reduce risks associated with overnight activities during the pandemic and increased risk of the transmission of COVID-19. They are applicable for all overnight activities held during a pandemic.
Scouts are together on a campout. They are in their campsite. They are gathered around, preparing their food. This is in the Grand Tetons.