USA Today: "Scary Scenerio: FLU PANDEMIC (12/22/04)

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bush* for FAILED TO PROVIDE AMERICANS WITH SUFFICIENT FLU VACCINE....appearing on TV several times, asking Americans to sacrifice their lives for others, and NOW, vaccines are sitting un-used...bush* is NOT appearing on TV to tell people that the vaccines are now available - go get your shot....NOOOOOO, that would be politically embarrassing.....bush* is vacationing, and NOT apprearing to avoid highlight his incompetence....bush* healthcare: shut up and DIE quietly.....



Posted 12/22/2004 9:27 PM
Scary scenario: Pandemic
By Anita Manning, USA TODAY

Imagine showing up to work one day and finding half your co-workers out sick. Imagine the business world in slow motion, healthy workers overburdened by taking on the jobs of the sick, hospitals overflowing with patients, schools closed and not enough medicine to go around.

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Scientists long have expected another flu pandemic, the kind of wildfire epidemic that emerges every few decades. Nobody knows when it will happen or how bad it could be.

Plans are being made to handle what could be a public health nightmare, but "much of the world is unprepared for a pandemic of any size," the World Health Organization says.

An Institute of Medicine report, "The Threat of Pandemic Influenza," last month estimated that in a worst-case scenario, up to 207,000 people could die of the flu in the USA along with 733,000 hospitalizations and 42 million people treated as outpatients. By comparison, an average flu season claims 36,000 lives and results in 200,000 hospitalizations.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-12-22-pandemic_x.htm