[Jim Noble]

Fantastic post, expresses my thoughts exactly!

My field is Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, we are facing a major emergency and I have not heard a peep yet about mobilization.

A major ID meeting is scheduled for 9/21 in N.O. (obviously it will be cancelled).

Vaccine supplies and drug supplies to prevent typhoid, Hepatitis A, malaria, and yellow fever need to be rounded up and emergency aid stations and hospitals created - once we figure out where the refugees are going.

It would not be unreasonable to try to vaccinate the whole US population for Hepatitis A, since refugees will be all over and HAV will be a big problem.

[livius]

I'm most certainly not an infectious disease specialist - or anything remotely medical at all - but common sense is enough to tell anybody that there's a big health emergency just around the corner. I sure hope there's more going on to deal with it than we have heard about so far.

[Fellow Traveler]

My wife works as a PACU nurse part-time at a small day surgery hospital in Arlington, Texas. They have been warned to expect trauma patients starting tomorrow. Trauma patients are being flown into the Joint reserve base in Fort Worth (use to be Carswell AFB). The bigger hospitals are getting patients tonight. The little hospitals starting tomorrow and the next day.

[NautiNurse]

I heard from some docs today - current patients are being evac, staged, and triaged at the New Orleans airport. Heard a few hours ago the CDC and NHSC are gearing up for ID issues.
In the last hour, heard Tampa Bay hospitals are gearing up for a substantial number of patients.

[George W. Bush]

It would not be unreasonable to try to vaccinate the whole US population for Hepatitis A, since refugees will be all over and HAV will be a big problem.

Now, Jim, put that needle down and stop eying me like that...

; )