Greg Poland
Greg Poland
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Are we adequately prepared? ... No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happened next week, the public would be outraged that we waited and ignored the concerns and now people in every neighborhood were dying.
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In our lifetime, we have not seen a disease sweep through a community and people die so fast that there's no one to take care of them at the hospital and there's no one to bury them. That's what will happen in a pandemic. It would be more deaths than all the world's wars in all of human history. All within the space of six to 18 months.
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We still use 1940s technology to develop influenza vaccines.
epidemic
What we really don't want to see is an epidemic of panic.