Posted on 09/07/2017 1:16:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
As the body and injury counts rise in East Texas and Louisiana, an uncounted number — one that doesn’t bring the same media attention as deaths — is rising too: the number of lives saved.
When President Trump called Hurricane Harvey a natural disaster and Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Tom Price followed by declaring a public health emergency, they initiated a coordinated federal, state and local health care response that has likely saved thousands of lives.
Price spoke to me at his operations center at HHS last week, and he emphasized that responders are facing everything from a shortage of potable water to floodwater contamination with chemicals and bacteria, from mosquito-borne illnesses like West Nile virus and Zika to black mold, which can worsen asthma, emphysema and allergies.
The key to saving people, Price said, is to match the intervention with the need, and this means relying on HHS’s database as well as its integrated relationship with state and local health officials.
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Trump said the Coast Guard saved 14,000 people. I think he meant to say 1,400. If that’s the case I hope he tweets a correction soon.
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