Tuesday Flu Focus
1) Trust for America's Health has made available a very complete summary of the nation's (un)preparedness for an avian flu pandemic (state by state: anticipated deaths, courses of Tamiflu, etc.) It also emphasizes what can be done, still, to reduce economic and health impacts from this crisis. I'd suggest this: print out this document and be sure someone in your local health department reads it. Today.
2) FuturePundit's evaluation of the TFAH document. Among his conclusions, the following:
"If a half million or more Americans were at risk from some type of terrorist attack billions of dollars would be thrown at the problem. We should do the same with the avian flu threat. Avian flu is far more likely to kill you in the next 5 years than anything terrorists might accomplish. Our preparations for it should be commensurate with the scale of the threat it poses."
An ounce of prevention...