RAPID: Hurricane Evacuations in the Age of COVID-19

RAPID：COVID-19 时代的飓风疏散

• 批准号: 2052268
• 负责人: Jennifer Collins
• 金额: $ 7.88万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2052268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Hurricane; Evacuations; Age; COVID

Pandemics pose a potentially lethal threat to large numbers of people during a natural disaster. Understanding risk perception and responses to those risks is critical for emergency managers. This project will analyze public perceptions of risk of contracting a lethal virus that inform the choice to shelter in place during a hurricane, or to seek safety in a public shelter. As such, COVID-19 represents an unprecedented public health challenge to evacuation in hurricane-prone coastal areas as well as areas impacted by inland flooding. Emergency managers and public health planners, including federal officials, private sector, and nonprofit organizations need to understand how hurricane evacuation plans change during a pandemic. This study will help advance knowledge of hurricane evacuation behavior, risk, and decision making to anticipate crucial resource needs, to reveal the need for mutual aid agreements, and to improve public messaging during pandemics. This study documents risk perceptions from those who made evacuation decisions from threatening hurricanes in the active 2020 hurricane season, starting with data collected from those impacted by Hurricane Laura. These post-hurricane risk perceptions will be compared to pre-hurricane risk perception data collected from 7,102 residents that that live in hurricane prone regions. The pre-hurricane survey found that almost half the respondents viewed themselves as vulnerable to COVID-19, and that 74.3% of individuals viewed the risk of being in a shelter during the pandemic as more dangerous than sheltering in place. This RAPID study will utilize a similar survey to collect data about how residents that experienced a hurricane in 2020, starting with Hurricane Laura actually evaluated risk and how they responded to their perceived risk of contracting COVID-19 and their utilization of shelters. Officials can use the results of this study to better inform strategies of shelter preparedness and pandemic risk mitigation to minimize risk to those who may be affected by hurricanes during a mandatory evacuation order.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在自然灾害期间，Pandemics对许多人构成了致命的威胁。了解风险感知和对这些风险的反应对于应急管理者至关重要。该项目将分析公众对感染致命病毒的风险的看法，该病毒在飓风期间选择了庇护所，或者在公共庇护所寻求安全。因此，Covid-19代表了对飓风易于撤离沿海地区撤离以及受内陆洪水影响的地区的前所未有的公共卫生挑战。 包括联邦官员，私营部门和非营利组织在内的紧急经理和公共卫生规划师需要了解大流行期间飓风疏散计划的变化。这项研究将有助于促进对飓风疏散行为，风险和决策的了解，以预测至关重要的资源需求，以揭示对共同援助协议的需求，并在大流行期间改善公共消息传递。这项研究记录了那些在2020年飓风季节威胁飓风的撤离决定的人的风险看法，从受劳拉飓风影响的人收集的数据开始。这些后纯种后的风险感知将与居住在容易发生飓风地区的7102名居民收集的赫鲁里卡前风险感知数据进行比较。赫鲁里奇（Hurricane）的调查发现，几乎一半的受访者认为自己容易受到19日的影响，而74.3％的人认为大流行期间在庇护所中被庇护的风险比庇护所更危险。这项快速的研究将利用类似的调查来收集有关2020年飓风遭受飓风的居民的数据，从劳拉飓风开始实际评估了风险，以及他们如何应对签约Covid-19的风险以及他们对庇护所的利用。官员可以利用这项研究的结果来更好地为庇护准备和降低大流行风险的策略提供依据，以最大程度地减少可能在强制性撤离令中受飓风影响的人的风险。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来评估的支持，并被认为是值得的。