Osterholm Changes Pandemic Flu Emphasis -

[teederkee]

Re: Osterholm Changes Pandemic Flu Emphasis -

One way of "serving better" includes ensuring that others do the same. For example, when in the healthcare setting we should insist that healthcare providers wash their hands before and after treating you. We should insist that surfaces be wiped down promptly. Numerous studies have shown that time and workload constraints allow laspes in good practice.

The average person is too polite or submissive to question the healthcare professional, even if it is to ask whether they plan to wash their hands and stethoscopes before touching you. If we don't start doing that and/or assume that it is already being done, it won't really matter what else we hope to achieve.

 

[Amish Country]

Re: Osterholm Changes Pandemic Flu Emphasis -

It sounds like to me Dr. Osterholm is being a realist, granted like many of us here at Flutrackers a frustrated one. Political leaders in the US can only lead our people where they want to go. Pandemic flu preparation is not a major priority for most.

Pandemics and epidemics eventually burn themselves out, hopefully in no more than a few months time, granted they can reoccur and come in multiple waves of varying degrees of infection and mortality like the infamous 1918 influenza. Afterward we may have to improvise completely new coping mechanisms and/or revisit historic ones for treating the traumatized survivors and rebuilding a damaged society that maybe now missing many key, highly trained human resources. By anticipating these needs now I hope Dr Osterholm will help to have us that much further along when a pandemic strikes. In the course of human events his efforts to facilitate this process may be more important.

May I suggest the first thing that may have to anticipate rebuilding is the political structure? Since our politicians see little or no need to prepare sadly they and their loved ones will mostly likely be casualties.

I have no fear of my local politician in charge of emergency preparation perishing in a pandemic. My request to review the local emergency plan for a pandemic may have precipitated a 3 week hunting trip (I'm sure deer were in season somewhere at the time) followed closely by long vacation.

 

[tropical]

Re: Osterholm Changes Pandemic Flu Emphasis -

One way of "serving better" includes ensuring that others do the same. For example, when in the healthcare setting we should insist that healthcare providers wash their hands before and after treating you. We should insist that surfaces be wiped down promptly. Numerous studies have shown that time and workload constraints allow laspes in good practice.

The average person is too polite or submissive to question the healthcare professional, even if it is to ask whether they plan to wash their hands and stethoscopes before touching you. If we don't start doing that and/or assume that it is already being done, it won't really matter what else we hope to achieve.

Precisely what is worldwide present.

But unfortunately, that kind of we serve you better seems to be an "mission impossible", and can ensure reversed other kind of bad outcomes from the med. branch to the "pushers", even if all of them knows that those things are one of the main sanitation procedure postulates up from the Koch times.