From the pandemicflu.gov website: “Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, Secretary of Health & Human Services, Mike Leavitt, and Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, will discuss preparations for avian influenza in the U.S. The briefing will include details of the expanded migratory bird monitoring system, and an update on response plans in the event of an outbreak among domestic birds. Secretary Leavitt will discuss public health preparedness.
When: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:00 p.m. EST
The event will also be available via live web cast from the PandemicFlu.gov Web site.”
Well, that’s odd, I DID type a subject; guess I put in some illegal characters or something. The subject was supposed to be “Avian Flu Briefing 3/20″ Oh, ok—the slash mark seems to have done me in. Live and learn.
I renamed the thread. As you’ve seen, punctuation and slashes don’t work well in thread titles.
Is this briefing being telecast on TV or just the web cast? If on TV, which network?
I thought those people were supposed to be in Austin on Mon morning for the Texas Summit?
Centex - they may be doing their briefing from Austin and uplinking it.
Thanks, pogge. I’ve learned my lesson! Bumping this for visibility.
bumping this
The briefing is being done at the Ag building in DC - at least the Ag Secreatries part. I was told, however, that Leavitt would be in building as well. The ywould not let me attend as I have no media creds.
I’ve yet to see a link on the pandemicflu.gov site, but you can find it on the homepage of usda www.usda.gov
I had an opportunity to speak with a gentleman who works in the usda secretaries office this morning and he indicated that they (meaning all the secretaries) are discussing this issue, including the public health aspects, how to help employees in the filed etc and that this event is just part of a larger overall media effort.
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(musak playing while we wait…) I used the USDA site, too.
Starting now .
Media’s “power and responsibility…” …
“no need to alarm the public, but there is a need to inform the public”…
Can’t get connected to the server, perhaps it hasn’t started yet?
It’s on, but my media playing is chopping it up
EOD- I’m on high speed cable. Get 10–20 seconds, then it drops out. Comes back after a few seconds. Now it’s dropped out completely. Says the server is unavailable.
Guess they underestimated the bandwidth demand.
(they don’t want the public to confuse H5N1 getting here with a human pandemic)
Connected but unable to maintain sufficient stream to actually hear what is being said more than 4 words at a time with 20 second drops in between.
Am I the only one who is getting chop/dropout?
wild birds with H5N1 may be a pathway and an indicator …needs to monitor and detect it in wild birds …
probably not going to hear much we don’t know today, but ya never know (-Why don’t they ever mention the East Atlantic flyway from the west african coast to eastern Canada??))
This is maddening, I hope it is played in it’s entirety somewhere else!
I have decent audio but a still image captured from the very beginning; i.e., no video.
boy, I can’t wait to read the transcript of this. too bad we couldn’t hear it real time. I get three words out of ten.
I’m on high speed cable here too but getting nothing :)
How disappointing, sure hope it becomes available elsewhere.
I’m having trouble also,will there be a traqnscipt avaible?
(Ok she mentioned it and showed the map , but it looks like Alaska got all the early testing money for now)
Buffering has to keep getting the next few words, but seems to pick up where left off.
High speed connection here at work but having same problems as everybody else.
Well, our government certainly wasn’t “prepapred” for the streaming of this webcast. What a dissapointment - lots of dropout and finally I was bumped due to their server.
finally it seems to be doing better. i had the choppy problem too but now the audio is perfect. the video is still super choppy though
If anyone finds a link to a transcript - please post it here.
Thanks!
Pandemics happen.
…if we can’t put a spark out, a wildfire of pandemic will occur…vaccines plural; it is evolving… we do not have capacity until 3 to 5 years… antivirals…
… all segments need to be involved local preparedness
…any community that fails to prepare because they think they federal government will come through will be tragically wrong…
pandemicflu.gov checklists..
Preparedness starts with good communication… inform but not inflame…prepare not panic… anything said before seems alarmist, any thing we have done after it starts seems inadequate… Get more prepared every day
I love the way everyone keeps saying that “cooking makes it safe, we should still consume it”…
but who is goign to be brave enough to touch the raw chicken to prepare it for us to eat?
personally, I am eating chicken or turkey nearly every day right now at some point. I figure I will get myself so sick of it that when this does become an issue, I will be glad I won’t have to have any more chicken for a while!
(lost my other post -media was supposed to get: 1. high-path H5N1 found in the US will not = human Pandemic. 2. if the US gets high-path H5N1 even in commercial poultry, poultry is still safe to eat, cooking kills the virus.)
The hurricane-that-won’t-be-named -better response this time-(silly question) They’ve said for months you’re on your own; don’t expect the government to save you.
Leavitt says we have to think the worst can happen.
Others sending help….” Could not would not happen in a pandemic people will be in their homes handling or preparing to handle the same dilemmas”… pandemic completely different kind of problem… local preparedness…
I agree— someone still has o handle the raw chicken. Yes, there are precautions, but home kitchens tend not to be set up well for those. The faucet handles are particularly dangerous, and who has foot pedals at home for the sink?
Not worth it in my opnion.
Should be able to get a transcript from this link with the USDA when it is ready: http://tinyurl.com/pdfkf
Floridafleur, Very appreciated, Thank You
Keeps saying the ammount of poultry outdoors is too small to worry about compared to sophisticated biosecure factory farms, yet too numerous to catch them all and put them indoors!
Respirator mask availability against a pademic? Made orders for 100 million masks, not adequate, each hospital, clinic, school needs a plan…
Poultry owners in the US will be compensated for H5N1 losses
Liability for vaccine makers? Didn’t like how that was done, politicians more divided? Not to say whether people didn’t like how that was done, they needed to get vaccine liability waved or manufacturers wouldn’t have acted to make pandemic vaccines. (I thought government could sieze them and tell them they had to in an emergency? Not this govt.)
Differences in a pandemic and other disasters… not days … it goes for 12 to 18 months, 6 to 8 weeks, 2 or 3 waves, people have to eat, make a living, businesses have to deliver goods and services …businesses who serve the public, ask, how could we operate if 40% workforce could not come to work for 2 to 4 week period? Everyone needs to be involved in pandemic planning.
Consumers should know now, if they find a dead bird -what to do? Individual dead bird: no cause for concern -state fish and game or local public health -gloves and plastic bag, large numbers; variety of causes (ABBF;-)) local fish and wildlife agencies would look at those.
“Liability for vaccine makers?” Yes, it is needed to go forward with vaccines…even when there is damage or death (see Swine Flu vaccine and why we have to sign waivers today to obtain flu shots).
“The Wall Street Journal reports other vital vaccines are also at risk. We could soon face a catastrophic shortage of vaccines to combat measles, chicken pox, tetanus, polio and other life-threatening viruses. In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States had 26 vaccine manufacturers. Now we are down to just four. There is now only one vaccine manufacturer for each virus mentioned above. The explanation is politicians and trial lawyers. Drug companies can’t make profits from producing vaccines any longer because of product liability lawsuits.” http://tinyurl.com/n6ov4
Let’s not get political about this issue, please…it is boring to many (especially those from other countries).
And do the political arguments change the problem or anyone’s minds? Thanks.
Q “Liability for vaccine makers? Didn’t like how that was done, politicians more divided?
A. Not to say whether people didn’t like how that was done, they needed to get vaccine liability waved or manufacturers wouldn’t have acted to make pandemic vaccines”
that was a journalist’s question from the webcast; I don’t type fast.
Right. The real danger for vaccine makers is churning out a vaccine that has not been tested to FDA specs on people---therefore they need liability coverage.
It is a throw of the dice: do you risk an adverse reaction to a new vaccine; or do you risk infection with a deadly virus? I think I’ll take the vaccine if one becomes available.
If the vaccine is a live virus,too, it has more hazards than a dead virus vaccine. Don’t know which one it will be or which can be produced more rapidly.
It is archived on a webcast on http://www.pandemicflu.gov/ click on march 20th archived broadcast.
My local newspaper (Providence Journal) ran a story reporting on this briefing yesterday that originated from the Washington Post. It was all about monitoring birds. I saw no mention of Mike Leavitt’s comments, no mention of individual or local preparedness; no mention of communities not being able to count on a response from the government. Just that the US is stepping up testing of birds. No wonder the majority of people around here are unconcerned (or, if concerned at all, still aren’t doing anything about it).
Older thread, closing for speed purposes.
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