We had it easy with the H1N1 flu pandemic that hit us in 2009 to early-2010. It wasn’t the killer virus that experts had been telling everyone to plan for and to expect. It wasn’t a replay of 1918. The real danger now is that the boy cried wolf, and people may not heed the […]
With the movie 2012 playing in theatres, more mediocre disaster flicks than you can shake a stick at, movies like Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman, and dire comparisons with the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, it’s hard not to conclude that the current H1N1 pandemic has been something of a flop. What happened to the hordes of sick and […]
Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics. That is a military maxim that applies to endeavours emergency management. It’s easy to concentrate on tactics: the front line, where the rubber meets the road. It’s easy to forget that there is no rubber and no gas in the engine without the right logistics behind the […]
Kingston is a leader. The City of Kingston, and the KFLA Public Health Unit have a system that sees quickly, talks fast, and heads off health problems faster than anyone else in Ontario. I’ve been dealing with flu assessment centres in Ontario these past few weeks, and Kingston was a leader all the way through. […]
We have some very dedicated and conscientious physicians and pharmacists out there — but we also have some who are still driven by dollars and cents. I’ve had an interesting experience with the Province of Ontario’s response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic these past few weeks. I’ve seen some of the back-end of how the […]
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