Florida runs pandemic exercise
Via The News-Press: Florida emergency unit simulates flu pandemic. Excerpt:
Gov. Charlie Crist and most of his department heads gathered at the state's Emergency Operations Center today for a simulation of an influenza pandemic.
The giant EOC is usually used for hurricane and wild fire emergencies — both simulated and real — but state officials are running through a table-top exercise today with responses for a flu outbreak that could kill 100,000 people. When to close schools, how to quarantine people and methods for distributing medical supplies across the state were on the agenda for the drill.
I look forward to seeing what my Floridian colleagues Scott McPherson and Mike Coston have to say about the exercise. Both are post excellent material today about the Air Batu cases in Sumatra.
