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Public Health – Role in Preparedness is Little Appreciated and Poorly Funded
Public Health and Healthcare Emergency Preparedness The 10th annual public health report by Trust for America’s Health was just released, prompting headlines about widespread state failures to...
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The Strategic National Stockpile – The Parts That Are Not Top Secret!
Raise Your Hand if You’ve Heard of the Strategic National Stockpile Until my involvement in disaster preparedness, I was unaware of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). In fact, it wasn’t until my...
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Alphabet City – The Acronyms Controlling Your Health in a Disaster
Just when I think I’m getting this whole disaster thing, someone throws a new acronym at me. My personal theory is that the higher you go in government, the more acronyms you find. I’ve spent the last...
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Hippity Hoppity Easter Disease – Salmonella in Eggs and Chicks
It felt wrong to post a random blog topic on Easter, so here’s a detour investigating why some of my favorite Easter habits are now considered “no-nos”. Dying and hiding Easter Eggs, fuzzy chicks, and...
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Boom, Boom, Pow – Medical Surge May Be The Biggest Disaster of All
Hurricane Sandy introduced the word “surge” into common use to explain the flooding of Manhattan and New Jersey. Storm surge is an offshore rise in water level caused by high winds pushing on the ocean...
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Pandemic Surge – How Bad Could It Possibly Be?
I talked about medical surge a month or two ago in preparation for a grandiose goal – spearheading a community wide pandemic surge planning process in conjunction with county public health. Since I’m a...
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