President Barack Obama declared H1N1 a national emergency last weekend, a status that will give the federal government greater flexibility and authority to contain the pandemic. But the current shortage of H1N1 vaccine underscores the severe lack of U.S. preparedness in responding to pandemics, whether through natural disease transmission or manmade bioterrorist attacks.
I am posting this in my capacity as the chair of the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. Jim Talent, former Republican senator from Missouri, is the vice chair.
I’m posting this because I am worried. Read the rest of this entry »
