Flu - Canada, Brit better prep'd than US

[oscar111]

"Report: Flu Pandemic Could Kill
Half Million in U.S."

ONLY A MILLION STAFFED BEDS
June 24, 2005; Washington, D.C. (Reuters and CNN)
-- Half a million... could die and more than 2 million could end up in the hospital ...if an even
moderately severe strain of a pandemic flu hits,....  But the US... only has 965,256 staffed hospital beds

LAGS BRITAIN AND CANADA
.....snip...U.S. has not adequately planned for the disruption a flu pandemic
could cause to the
++++++++++++++++++
economy, daily life, food and supply distributions
++++++++++++++++++++
, or homeland security,".....  "The U.S. lags in pandemic preparations compared to *****Great Britain
and Canada ******, ... Health officials .... say they are developing a plan.
...

"TAMIFLU PILLS CAN PREVENT"
snip ...Trust said more could be done to prepare now, ...stockpile antiviral drugs .... stockpiled 2.3 million courses of the best anti-influenza drug, oseltamivir
..... the brand name Tamiflu.  It
has placed orders for three million more courses of the drug, .... not cure influenza but can
prevent infection if taken early enough and can reduce its severity.
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Call, email your congresspersons to get the US to prepare for the flu!
---Also, we need to nationalize all four corners of healthcare.
1 drs
2 hospitals/nursing homes
3 insurance
4 Big Pill

Canada and Britain also are ahead of us in getting to that point. I am not sure how fully they have nationalized, but they are ahead of us, to be sure.

Under bush, we have sunk from

2O nations outlive us
to
24 nations outlive us

also,... from
WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2OOO {UN}
---the US is

37 th in health delivery system quality

72 nd in health status of the population

Not a typo.. thirty seventh and seventy second. Outrageous.
--We pay the highest per capita. As one commentator said { on tv's NOW?} , we in the US are "being played for fools, suckers and rubes".