Despite that nice post on the CDC website last month about the value of FluWiki and other “new media,” I blogged today that the comment by Dr. Wortley in the AP state-by-state wrap-up of pandemic plans that “How are states doing and how do we know how states are doing? … There’s a lot of important things that are very hard to measure. It’s a real challenge.” made me wonder if CDC really does “get it” about new media. I cited the FluWiki chart on state plans, and said that I suspected it would probably only take until noon today if one volunteer from each state checked out his/her state’s plan to create a “best practices by states” thread on FluWiki (or does it already exist????) that would make it easy to compare.
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You have seen Monotreme’s two pages of
(then, there’s also the mass fatality management plans around the flu wiki forums, an issue that’s supposed to be being addressed by all levels of emergency planning, not a subject avoided by all levels of government; important to morale and future of survivors, ect, ect, no?)
“Best practices” often are not to be found in state, bureaucratic, all-hazard, fed/state/mutual aid, “seasonal influenza attack and fatality rate” scenario plans!
Best practices are often to be found from the “hive mind”
(whose jobs don’t ride on not putting a politician out of their comfort zone or not making someone’s stock options waffle before pandemic tanks ‘em anyway.)
Long story short;
What states populations’ can say,
they heard about the World Health Organizations “Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza”,
and saw the US pandemicflu.gov websites
when they went up back in Oct. 2005?
How many have still not heard a worse-than 1918 influenza pandemic year may break out at any time and federal and state plans expect local communities and individuals will have to cope on their own, and no vaccines are not waiting-in-the-wings-problem-solved
-public not educated in infection control and ready for supply chain/power grid disruptions?
reading 50 plans that each have 75–150 pages is not a simple taks and will give you planhorrrea.
I recommend Minnestota’s plan, (see FL and CO) but a ‘best practice’ project is a great idea.
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