Irwin Redlener
Irwin Redlener
Irwin Redlener is a pediatrician and public health activist who specializes in health care for underserved children, health care reform, and disaster planning, response, and recovery. He is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 August 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
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You have sewage contaminating the water supply. You not only have the danger of the sewage itself, the need for water is one of the primary needs that must be fulfilled and people will drink dirty water, if they get thirsty enough.
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You have sewage contaminating the water supply, ... You not only have the danger of the sewage itself, the need for water is one of the primary needs that must be fulfilled and people will drink dirty water, if they get thirsty enough.
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We heard this horrific story today of a woman whose husband died and she sat in the tent for hours because there's nothing you can do with the body ... and just went to tell the coroner, 'I marked it and you can find the body here or there,'
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Within the next six months, we'll have infected birds in the U.S..
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I would like to see a new national discussion about what prepared means, how it's measured and what we should expect. Since 9-11, the nation has spent tens of billions of dollars on preparedness, yet we can account for very little and can hardly say what actually has been accomplished.
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We're only missing one more piece before it becomes a pandemic and that is the ability to be transmitted from person to person as opposed to simply from birds or fowl to humans,
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We're playing Russian roulette with public health here.
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The health care system is at least crippled, if not completely out of commission.
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The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case,
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The lethal capacity of this virus is very, very high, so it's a deadly virus that humans have not been exposed to before. That's a very bad combination.