CDC releases software for pandemic planning
As a part of its effort to encourage planning for pandemic influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has created FluAid, a software program available to local communities. The program helps estimate deaths, hospitalizations, and outpatient visits due to a pandemic as well as how many hospital beds and health care providers will be needed. (Go to: www2.cdc.gov/od/fluaid/default.htm.)
"People need to start planning for [pandemic influenza]," says Martin Myers, MD, acting director of CDC’s National Vaccine Program Office. "This is going to happen; we just don’t know when. The worst-case scenario would be to be unprepared for pandemic influenza when it comes." Meanwhile, CDC is preparing its final
version of pandemic flu guidelines, which include information about the use of antiviral medication and possible restriction of infected health care workers. A copy of the draft guidelines is available on American Health Consultant’s Web site: www.ahcpub.com/ahc_root_html/hot/breaking.html or CDC’s pandemic influenza site at www.cdc.gov/od/nvpo.
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