Finland has a National Emergency Supply Agency, which maintains its own stockpile of emergency supplies including food, fuel, and healthcare supplies; they recently released respirators from the supply in response to COVID-19. (They have previously released crop seeds in 2018 after an exceptionally bad growing season had caused a shortage, and fuel in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina caused a reduction in the availability of oil.) They also actively coordinate with the private sector. I am a little unclear about what exactly that collaboration involves, but according to the news, under normal circumstances Finland’s largest grocery chains report on their supply situation to the agency twice a day.
The are also legal requirements for drug manufacturers and importers to stockpile medicine: there’s e.g. a 10 month emergency supply of antibiotics, a 6 month supply of blood pressure and diabetes medication, and a 3 month supply of respiratory and cancer medicine, among others.
Finland has a National Emergency Supply Agency, which maintains its own stockpile of emergency supplies including food, fuel, and healthcare supplies; they recently released respirators from the supply in response to COVID-19. (They have previously released crop seeds in 2018 after an exceptionally bad growing season had caused a shortage, and fuel in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina caused a reduction in the availability of oil.) They also actively coordinate with the private sector. I am a little unclear about what exactly that collaboration involves, but according to the news, under normal circumstances Finland’s largest grocery chains report on their supply situation to the agency twice a day.
The are also legal requirements for drug manufacturers and importers to stockpile medicine: there’s e.g. a 10 month emergency supply of antibiotics, a 6 month supply of blood pressure and diabetes medication, and a 3 month supply of respiratory and cancer medicine, among others.