The United States is unprepared for the next flu pandemic, lacking the manufacturing capacity to provide 300 million doses of a vaccine for three to five more years, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said. What we all learned from (Hurricane) Katrina is that sometimes we have to think very clearly about the unthinkable, ... We're not as prepared as we need to be. ...We will not have enough for everyone.
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A pandemic is unique among disasters. It could happen in 5,000 different communities around the world at the same time, and no central place can manage all of those difficulties, and so local communities need to be ready, and part of the president's plan is to assure that they are,
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The entire nation is rallying to bring resources to the aid of this remarkable human tragedy ... this is a nationwide and remarkable response, ... we're all burdened at this poing with some limit of our situational knowledge of what's going on on the ground.
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