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Hawaii may turn to hotels for help in pandemic flu outbreak
By Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) _ Health care officials in Hawaii may have to transform some hotels into makeshift hospitals if an influenza pandemic erupts.
Doctors and nurses would pull out disposable bed sheets, hand towels, and other supplies currently being stockpiled for that worst-case-scenario.
Many states are preparing for the next influenza pandemic.
Experts say it could kill millions around the world and thousands in the islands.
State officials are storing the anti-flu drug Tamiflu and practicing vaccinating elementary school children.
On some islands, health care workers have held mock clinics.
There are about three-thousand beds in hospitals across the state but about 90 percent of those are usually occupied.
But Hawaii will likely need almost double that in a pandemic.
Hawaii may turn to hotels for help in pandemic flu outbreak
By Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) _ Health care officials in Hawaii may have to transform some hotels into makeshift hospitals if an influenza pandemic erupts.
Doctors and nurses would pull out disposable bed sheets, hand towels, and other supplies currently being stockpiled for that worst-case-scenario.
Many states are preparing for the next influenza pandemic.
Experts say it could kill millions around the world and thousands in the islands.
State officials are storing the anti-flu drug Tamiflu and practicing vaccinating elementary school children.
On some islands, health care workers have held mock clinics.
There are about three-thousand beds in hospitals across the state but about 90 percent of those are usually occupied.
But Hawaii will likely need almost double that in a pandemic.