H5N1 News: Bush to unveil U.S. pandemic plan tomorrow
Bob Brewin writes in Government Health IT:
President Bush will unveil a national pandemic preparedness plan in a speech at the National Institutes of Health tomorrow, a Bush administration spokesman said.
Bush’s speech will update a draft pandemic preparedness plan that the Department of Health and Human Services released in August 2004. The speech will come days after the Senate added $8 billion to the 2006 HHS appropriations bill, which passed last Thursday, to help combat an avian flu outbreak.
The avian flu funds, added to the Senate version of the bill in an amendment sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), includes $3.1 billion for stockpiling antiviral medication and $3.3 billion for stockpiling flu vaccines. The bill also includes $600 million for state and local public health agencies for emergency preparedness and $750 million to improve hospital preparedness and surge capacity.
posted by Fergie @ 10/31/2005 03:38:00 PM
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