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I keep thinking about how our medical system just went through another round of downsizing in the last year. It is not ready for even a moderate flu season like the one in 1999/2000. It is stocking drugs and the real problem might be a lack of people to distribute them. A lot of the nurses on this site were NOT RNs or LPNs during the pandemic of 1999/2000. They have no idea of how bad it can get. By bad I mean no matter how many patients there are they just make what ever staff they have care for them. Like I said the last pandemic was 9 years ago and it was not the worst by far that it can get. I actually quit half way through it and took three years off because I was so fed up. Back then the site was more mixed and international. I remember the crys of distress from nurses all over the world. We here in USA were in much better shape as far as capacity then. In the last 9 years they have done nothing but down size and reduce capacity. I got the feeling the most frequent post will change from "I can't find a job" to "I quit".
indigo girl
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Opening remarks at the Intergovernmental Meeting on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
Geneva, Switzerland
15 May 2009
Sharing of influenza viruses, access to vaccines and other benefits
Dr Margaret Chan
Director-General of the World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2009/pandemic_influenza_preparedness_20090515/en/index.html
History is being made at these meetings. I would have liked to have been there. I respect Dr. Chan. She knows the score, and what is at stake.