The most frustrating thing to me is that FedEx can do that sort of detailed tracking of what it ships, but public health officials can't do the same thing with flu vaccine. The knowledge of where exactly vaccine is ought to be a public resource. We have a lot of work to do.
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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.Georges Benjamin
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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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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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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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