HHS Boosting Nation’s Stockpile of Burn Treatments in Case of Nuclear Attack (but Iran deal?!)

Cybercast News Service ^ | October 1, 2015 | 6:49 AM EDT | Susan Jones

[Olog-hai]

“The detonation of an improvised nuclear device would produce intense heat, resulting in many patients with severe burns,” says a September 30 news release from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The announcement says HHS has contracted for the development of “four novel products to treat severe thermal burns.”

The products will boost the number of treatment options in case of disaster, and they’ll also be used in “routine” burn care situations.

The four treatments—one commercially available right now and three in development—“will be added to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) or managed by vendors to help protect people from burn injuries resulting from radiological and nuclear threats,” HHS said.

The announcement notes that burns stemming from a nuclear attack may require surgial skin grafting that is “resource intensive and technically demanding.” And with only 127 burn centers nationwide, a “mass casualty” incident could “easily overwhelm the nation’s burn care infrastructure.” …

[Lx]

Anyone not wearing 2 million sunblock is going to be dead, get it?

[Ancesthntr]

“The detonation of an improvised nuclear device would produce intense heat, resulting in many patients with severe burns,”

Someone gets paid to say this? What's next, an official proclamation that water is wet?

[Ancesthntr]

And with only 127 burn centers nationwide, a “mass casualty” incident could “easily overwhelm the nation’s burn care infrastructure.”

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Especially considering that most of the burn care infrastructure is located in cities (i.e. target areas).

Yet another “DUH!” moment for the genius announcing this stuff. You know, just buy the stuff, everyone with at least 2 working neurons understands why and agrees.

[Farmer Dean]

Somebody want to tell me what an “improvised nuclear device “is?Is that PC for atomic bomb?

[Ancesthntr]

“Somebody want to tell me what an “improvised nuclear device “is?Is that PC for atomic bomb?”

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That’s PC for “an atomic bomb not manufactured by a government, because it can’t be that sophisticated if done by individuals.”

The moniker, “improvised” seeks to denigrate it and the people who would make it (or who already HAVE made it, we can’t know). But its not exactly like an improvised thermite device that could be made with a few household chemicals...it is orders of magnitude more complex.

Yeah, its an a-bomb. I’m so sick and f’ing tired of this PC crap...can’t wait for Trump to be elected and make all of the heads of the PC crowd explode.

[Farmer Dean]

I’m right where you are on this,sick of all the word games.

[timestax]

ping

[Oatka]

Wait until they light one off in the upper atmosphere. Can you spell EMP children?

Yeah, a lot of the military is hardened, but the commercial and civilian world?

I can just see the Ayatollah sitting down with Kerry, saying "Yeah, you can make our whole country glow in the dark, but can America stand going back to the 1800s? Let's talk."

[sneakers]

bttt

[GOPJ]

Lots of people won’t be inside the blast area... The burn lotion is for those of us a few miles away. You shouldn’t push liberal stupidity...

[GOPJ]

Knowing how horrible our federal government is, we can assume all burn ointments will be in large city warehouses - places most likely to be nuked...

[Lx]

Actually, I’m pushing James Cameron’s liberal stupidity.

[GOPJ]

James Cameron grew up in the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction - kiss your ass goodbye) days.

It was a different time.

Today if ISIS or Iran hit us with a nuke or two - we would survive. It’s not the same.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Burn, baby, burn.

PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Actually, we’d go back much further than the 1800’s, since there are not many steam locomotives or horse-drawn carriages, and probably not enough hand tools to go around to harvest all those amber waves of grain.

[Oatka]

Actually, we’d go back much further than the 1800’s, since there are not many steam locomotives or horse-drawn carriages, and probably not enough hand tools to go around to harvest all those amber waves of grain.

Good points. Probably back to the Medieval times.