Georges Benjamin
Georges Benjamin
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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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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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No one should fool anyone that this is going to happen overnight ... because the health system is so complex.
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If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seasonal flu, and you could make a big dent in that. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
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Nations are dealing with this on their own because of fears of an impact on trade. We continue to see situations where nations are not as aggressive as they could be off the bat.
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People are eating out of (nonworking) refrigerators. They think it's good because it's still a little cool.
eating good people
People are eating out of (non-working) refrigerators. They think it's good because it's still a little cool.
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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.
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The threat is very serious and will only increase as the days go by without the waters receding.
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In an era during which new and re-emerging diseases, such as the H5N1 avian flu virus, are potential public health threats, Americans should not forget to take the proper precautions to protect their health against the diseases that threaten us today.
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This is concerning to all of us the health-care community and should be of equal concern to all Americans. We must find ways to reverse this negative trend.
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It's an illusory cost-shift. These people just don't have the money.
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There's a wave here and we should ride it. It's a terrible tragedy that's potentially there, but we should use it as an opportunity to address what we believe are long-standing areas of neglect in rebuilding the public health infrastructure.
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A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.