Michael Leavitt
Michael Leavitt
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The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable, ... because sometimes the unthinkable happens.
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The federal government will ensure that Texas will be reimbursed,
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It's clear to me that this has been sickeningly difficult and profoundly tragic,
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Their economies, already poor and struggling to recover from the recession, will be unable to support the regular matching payments needed to provide health care to the tens of thousands who will need it over the coming months,
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The world looks to Broadway for the very best in musical theatre, and we want Elephant Eye to be considered a home for adventurous people who share our passion for creating it.
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The world is obviously unprepared or inadequately prepared for the potential of a pandemic,
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We could be battling 5,000 different fronts at the same moment,
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There is no reason for anyone to delay or go without their annual flu shot,
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The burning question is, will there be a human influenza pandemic. On behalf of the WHO, I can tell you that there will be. The only question is the virulence and rapidity of transmission from human to human.
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For all of us, the best defense is containment. To find it and find it soon and then work as an international community to contain it,
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A major part of our domestic plan needs to be domestic capacity, because in a pandemic, the emergency will be managed across the globe, ... Anyone with a supply produced in their country will want to keep it there.
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Three times in this century we have experienced pandemic influenza and they will come again. We must be ready,