Medical Countermeasure Comics: Visualizing a Public Health Emergency Response

摘要

How do you help the public understand what to do in a large-scale emergency requiring medical countermeasures (MCMs), a crisis situation that they have never contemplated? And how do you rapidly mobilize them to get government-provided medications? A portion of the public is wary of any guidance from health officials, and even those who trust the public health department may experience such high levels of emotion during a public health emergency that it may be difficult for them to process instructions. When we need people to take extraordinary protective actions, how do we garner their trust and spur them to action?