The Phases of a Disaster: Are We Headed Towards Disillusionment?
7 min readJun 17, 2020
By: Erick Messias, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
A model of the phases of disaster suggests that we have passed through the first four phases and are now headed into the fifth: the phase of disillusionment.
We are living through different phases of a global disaster as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the entire world. In…