Pandemic Planning Process
While the major sources of pandemic influenza
planning can provide volumes of background
information on the nature of the threat and make
recommendations for a global or national
response, it is the local response that will have
the greatest impact on minimizing the effects of a
pandemic. In fact, the larger and more widespread
the pandemic, the more local the response will
have to be. The greater the need for help from
outside (state and national) resources, the fewer
of them there will be to go around, making the
local planning effort all the more important.
Except where activities are clearly beyond the
scope of local public and private entities, such as
vaccine development, production, and
distribution, most of the pandemic-related actions
taken will be orchestrated at the local level.
Dependence on the Federal government to ‘fix’
the pandemic problem at the local level will leave
most organizations exposed and at risk.
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While the major sources of pandemic influenza
planning can provide volumes of background
information on the nature of the threat and make
recommendations for a global or national
response, it is the local response that will have
the greatest impact on minimizing the effects of a
pandemic. In fact, the larger and more widespread
the pandemic, the more local the response will
have to be. The greater the need for help from
outside (state and national) resources, the fewer
of them there will be to go around, making the
local planning effort all the more important.
Except where activities are clearly beyond the
scope of local public and private entities, such as
vaccine development, production, and
distribution, most of the pandemic-related actions
taken will be orchestrated at the local level.
Dependence on the Federal government to ‘fix’
the pandemic problem at the local level will leave
most organizations exposed and at risk.
Close window and return to last page
