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Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. After his experiences of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Bush began the first White House pandemic preparedness planning project (Lewis 2021). Then in 2009, the National Academy of Medicine put forth a model noting three periods of a disaster: conventional, contingent, and crisis (Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Guidance for Establishing Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations 2009). While bioethics has examined ethics in conventional and crisis times, very little has been written about ethics during contingency—the period when a disaster is imminent but not yet arrived. David Alfandre et al.(2021) attempt to plug this gap through their article,“Between Usual and Crisis Phases of a Public Health Emergency: The Mediating Role of Contingency Measures.” Their proposed tool for contingency ethical decision-making appeals to hospital …