The White House recently released a study on what it's plan would be if the U.S. were to be hit by a pandemic bird flu. The paper included three hundred recommendations.
It projects two million American dead, widescale labor shortages, travel bans, voluntary quarantines, closure of public gathering places, National Guard deployments to deliver food and medicines, use of flu masks and gloves and an array of other ideas. Employers are being encouraged to allow people to work from home if possible.
It also says federal involvment would be mininal and that communities and states would be on their own. That's a little troubling. Hopefully the CDC would stay involved on all levels in developing a vaccine if such an outbreak were to hit.
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