November 07, 2005

Leaders Share Flu Pandemic Concerns

When the flu pandemic is here and the hospitals begin to overflow and there is not near enough staff or medicine or ventilators for every acutely ill patient, who will be treated?

"Are we going to do our best to save the next generation?" Diane Helentjaris, a health director in a Virginia community, wondered aloud. "Or are we going to do our best to prevent deaths?" (Washington Post)

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