Btw the Sun rose again this morning and the experts predicts it will Rise again tomorrow because a pandemic, no matter how virulent it is, is not the end of the World.
So we have been reminded to take precautionnary measures, HandWashing, Coughing and Sneezing Etiquette. stocking some critical medicines, some food and water, made a alternative solution in case schools and day care centers close for a week or so, and individually we do our best with what we know.
Now we are at the Phase that we have to protect our Health Care Infrastructures, we do not want our hospitals to shut down because of a up-surge. As a Society we need some basics Institutions, Services and Products.
WHO Influenza A(H1N1) - May 1st 2009
1 May 2009 -- The situation continues to evolve rapidly.
As of 06:00 GMT, 1 May 2009, 11 countries have officially reported 331 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection.
The United States Government has reported 109 laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death.
Mexico has reported 156 confirmed human cases of infection, including nine deaths.
The following countries have reported laboratory confirmed cases with no deaths - Austria (1), Canada (34), Germany (3), Israel (2), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (13), Switzerland (1) and the United Kingdom (8).
Being in the International Public Health Network one can feel something different from what it was at the beginning of the week.
Indeed, the Stress of Responsagilities for the Public has shift quite a bit from Experts in Micro-biology, Genetics, epidemiology, etc.. to Federal, State, Provincial, Territorial, and Local Politicians or Responsables.
We are now in the Mitigation Mode;
Schools and Day Care closing, Isolation and Quarantine etc.. those measures called NPI (Non Pharmaceutical Interventions) allow us to modulate the Public Responses, slow down the Outbreaks, make things manageable so to say.
It protects our Hospitals and Clinics to become overwhelmed and crunching for a period of time.
We need our Hospitals and Clinics but mostly our Health Care Providers to stay in Good Health to stay efficient. We have to think of their family too. How could one go to work instead of taking care of his/her child. We must support our Health Care Providers.
Situation Updates below.
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