Georges Benjamin
Georges Benjamin
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The most frustrating thing to me is that FedEx can do that sort of detailed tracking of what it ships, but public health officials can't do the same thing with flu vaccine. The knowledge of where exactly vaccine is ought to be a public resource. We have a lot of work to do.
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It's an illusory cost-shift. These people just don't have the money.
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This is mosquito country. There is the risk of explosive breeding of mosquitoes, as well as rats and rodents.
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I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go around, but I think the overall public health response was heroic.
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People are eating out of (nonworking) refrigerators. They think it's good because it's still a little cool.
arms buying concrete handle happens hospitals onto people role shots situation
What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying vaccine. That's not readiness. That's stockpiling. We have got to have first responders who know what their role is, people who can get shots into people's arms quickly, and hospitals who can handle patients.
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The question is: what happens with our existing funding? We've already had $100 million in reductions in public-health grants in the president's 2006 budget request. Public health is still in a big hole.