On Sunday CNN's Wolf Blizer on the State of the Union got H&HS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to preview that another billion dollars would be spent funding a soon to be created a safe and effective vaccine. It's not until some seven minutes into the over eight minute interview she says: "We have about a million cases of H1N1 right now in the United States right now..." "...The good news is that it's not terribly lethal right now. We had about 170 deaths, that's too many but we know 36,000 die each year with seasonal flu..." One is too many, but a death that results from a reckless disregard for the consequences is substantially different than an infant or elderly family member who needlessly dies. Let's prevent the preventable.
Monday, July 13, 2009
$350 Mil Flu Funds
Friday after we went to print the Health and Human Services laid out the amounts and locations for Public Health Emergency Response and Hospital Preparedness Grants. Cash strapped California receiving the lions' share of federal funds for emergency response.
While Los Angeles and Chicago received more federal money than most states and other jurisdictions the differences in percentages aren't that substantial. Both Virginia and Maryland who have had twice as many deaths than the DC do receive more funds but by size and distribution costs may have factored in the funding. We've asked Health and Human Services what formula was used to determine who got how much and why. The formula used to distribute the grants was based on population size.
On Sunday CNN's Wolf Blizer on the State of the Union got H&HS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to preview that another billion dollars would be spent funding a soon to be created a safe and effective vaccine. It's not until some seven minutes into the over eight minute interview she says: "We have about a million cases of H1N1 right now in the United States right now..." "...The good news is that it's not terribly lethal right now. We had about 170 deaths, that's too many but we know 36,000 die each year with seasonal flu..." One is too many, but a death that results from a reckless disregard for the consequences is substantially different than an infant or elderly family member who needlessly dies. Let's prevent the preventable.
On Sunday CNN's Wolf Blizer on the State of the Union got H&HS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to preview that another billion dollars would be spent funding a soon to be created a safe and effective vaccine. It's not until some seven minutes into the over eight minute interview she says: "We have about a million cases of H1N1 right now in the United States right now..." "...The good news is that it's not terribly lethal right now. We had about 170 deaths, that's too many but we know 36,000 die each year with seasonal flu..." One is too many, but a death that results from a reckless disregard for the consequences is substantially different than an infant or elderly family member who needlessly dies. Let's prevent the preventable.
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