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San Diego County has Dr. Kristi Koenig as medical director of its emergency medical services. That’s fortunate for the county, because she’s co-edited a definitive textbook, “Koenig and Schultz’s Disaster Medicine: Comprehensive principles and practices.” We’re fortunate to have her as our guest. She’s full of sound advice on organizing a community’s response (for example, setting up “incident command” structures) and evaluating patients as new threats emerge (the well-known “three-I’s” approach — Identify, Isolate, and Inform). With the number of COVID-19 cases rising quickly there in San Diego, she’s been busy (as have all of you). Running time: 19 minutes Links: Interview from 2016 with Koenig and Schultz on the second edition of their “Disaster Medicine” Koenig, Bey, and McDonald’s article on applying the 3-i tool to novel coronavirus in Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (Jan 31 online) Other interviews in this series on COVID-19: Dr. Anthony Fauci Dr. Susan Sadoughi Dr. Matthew Young Dr. Julian Flor