H1N1: Is It a Crisis or Is Staffing the Real Crisis?

Patrick,

Thank you for your comment and link.  There are many issues and concerns with this new pandemic and a great deal of information to weed through on the internet.  Two sites I tend to rely on are the CDC's site, http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/ and APIC's site:  apic.org.  

Tim,

Thanks for the comment and link.  While there is much in the literature and certainly much attention on the clinical side on MRSA/VRE, how much focus will be enough is hard to say.  

The issues with the economy have impacted the Culture of nursing in a negitive way in almost all aspects of the health industry.  Georgia is profoundly unprepared for any outbreak or disaster on most every level.  The fact that there is no trauma network and the is one level one trauma hospital in the city of Atlanta make you wonder how people think they are living in a first world country.  I think it may take a disaster on that level to enact our community to know what is missing in our emergency care.  The lack of communication, the lack of being able to be prepared for pandemic issues will surface.  The number of people who are already dieing because  we, Georgians do not choose to address the ineffective system the system that is   consistantly letting people die.  Because that is the way it is and we haven't seen the issue brought to light in an epidemic way but if you want to see some (and I note only some because only those who have an advocate can be remmembered)of the individual cost of life go to http://georgiaitsabouttime.com/

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H1N1 “The Swine Flu” is a serious virus that is going to cause many deaths this fall. It is similar to the “Killer flu of 1918. The worst flu ever to hit the United States… it killed over 200M people worldwide. Our company has tracked SARS, the “Bird flu, and we knew that they would not be the “Big one.” This “swine flu” is different… like the disaster caused by the 1918 virus the fact that it has mutated from Bird to Pig to Human makes it a serious threat. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a stage 6 virus this week, which is the highest rating the WHO gives to pandemics. The major reason to keep an eye on this H1N1 virus is that it started in the spring. Most flues occur in the fall and winter. The chances of the H1N1 mutating again this summer is very likely. When it does, it will become more virulent and unfortunately, the CDC is spending 2 Billion dollars on a vaccine that will be useless and could actually cause harm to those who elect to get the shot, How do I know this, because over the last several weeks we have been speaking to many expert on the subject. You can reach me directly at www, airtechsolutions4u.com.  

This is deemed, defended and supported as "the acceptable standards of health care" in TN and VA.  

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As a former health care giver and later a funeral director I would not be surprised if MRSA/VRE will be worse than AIDS because no one from the local health department, county administration, congress, senate, governor's office is paying attention.