Getting Beyond Getting Ready for Bird Flu
The message from the US House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security is: Let’s quit trying to get ready, and just get ready, already.
We are not ready for a pandemic, the report says.
Areas of weakness include:
- Failure to uniformly collect information
- Early warning biosurveillance
- Biosurveillance integration (agencies talking to agencies)
Hospitals are unprepared for the pandemic surge:
Hospital pandemic plans need to take into account current situations and characteristics in order to be realistic. For example, most hospitals141 in the country do not have the capacity to surge their operations to any great extent, 142 so planners should not pretend that surge can occur easily.
Green Eye Technology agrees that hospitals are ill-equpped to handle contagious pandemic. We propose that Homeland Security agencies be ready for the pandemic threat by building underground Emergency Treatment Centers.
See also: US Unprepared for Bird Flu, Part I.
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