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DemfromCt, editor of Flu Wiki and a regular contributor to the Daily Kos, has an important blog this morning about hospital surge during a pandemic, and details on a recent pandemic exercise that was held in Connecticut.
Hospital Surge, Exercises and Pandemics
by DemFromCT
Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 08:01:00 AM PDT
Part of the the health reform task is to make sure that natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes and (yes) influenza pandemics can be approached and mitigated by improving medical and public health infrastructure. One way to do this is to examine and improve the ability of hospitals to care for an excess number of patients for at least short periods of time. However, this can lead to concern about playing the fear card, and overdoing response. Despite those concerns, there's need to plan for surge.
