AP: Report Warned of Hurricane Health Woes

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http://start.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20050926/43377240_3421_13345200509261568578843

AP: Report Warned of Hurricane Health Woes
September 26, 2005 3:42 PM EDT
Eight months before the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, an internal Homeland Security Department review warned that the nation was woefully unprepared for a medical disaster and lacked a coherent plan for taking charge of mass casualties.

Government medical teams had difficulty coordinating and delivering help during 2004 hurricanes in Florida, said the report obtained by The Associated Press. The report also said there was inadequate planning for dealing with a surge of patients during a disaster like a biological or nuclear attack.

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Lowell also said he was startled when then-Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Mike Brown strongly rejected the ideas Lowell had proposed earlier this year. "He rejected the methodology, the message, the conclusion and the recommendations," Lowell said. "He disagreed with every single everything."

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Elin Gursky, a public health and biodefense specialist at the Arlington, Va.-based think tank, ANSER, said the nation is "quite conclusively" not prepared to protect people from harm and mitigate disasters. "We still don't know who's in charge, and until we do, people will hesitate to act. The assumption is that someone else is in charge," she said

[Spinzonner]

1. Well of course he rejected it

There was nothing about the horses in it.

[williesgirl]

2. Remember "what's important to my boss is important to me"

something we always lived by in management. If you care about something and want it to happen or reinforce positive behavior, you make sure the folks reporting to you know it's a priority to you and those above you.

Brown's "boss" could care less about the lives of ordinary citizens. As long as no one from his important corporate base, his fundraisers and his cronies aren't caught up in it, everything is fine with him.

[whatelseisnew]

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