The US Health care system is perpared to effectively respond to the widespread biological disasters.?

Question

Emergency Medical Class

Answer 1

We have plans in place. There are entire departments devoted to bioterrorism surveillance.

There are protocols that have been standardized for dealing with major biological disasters. I work for a major metropolitan health department, so we train extensively for these things. Fortunately, we have not yet needed to use the training.

We use the the Incident Command System to organize ourselves to deal with disasters. That's a hierarchy to delegate tasks across groups of workers. Pick a person to be in charge of a small group. Let that person make orders, you report back with your info and duties.

In the event of any biological incident, my specific role as an epidemiologist would be to find the incident, identify it and control it. Of course, if there's a real disaster at hand, I think I'll have to do the same heavy lifting as everyone else. Gotta prioritize.

Answer 2

No way. We were overwhelmed by 'Katrina'. Doubt we'd be able to handle a nation-wide incident.