Năm 2005, Mỹ đối phó với dịch cúm như nào?
thượng viện thông qua và tổng thống bush con ký phê chuẩn cấp 3,8 tỷ usd quỹ ứng phó dịch bệnh (cúm) ngay và luôn :)
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Before adjourning last week, the US Senate passed and sent to President Bush a bill providing $3.8 billion for pandemic influenza preparedness and a controversial (gây tranh cãi) liability shield for those who produce and administer drugs and vaccines used in a declared public health emergency (được dùng khi công bố tình trạng khẩn cấp về y tế công cộng).
The preparedness funding (quỹ ứng phó/dự phòng) and liability protection were part of the fiscal year 2006 defense spending bill passed by the Senate on the evening of Dec 21. The bill had cleared the House 2 days earlier.
The $3.8 billion for pandemic preparedness is a little more than half of the $7.1 billion Bush had requested in early November. House Republican leaders said last week the measure would fund roughly the fiscal year 2006 portion of Bush’s request.
As reported previously, the amount includes $350 million to improve state and local preparedness and directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use most of the rest on “core preparedness activities,” including increasing vaccine production capacity, developing vaccines, and stockpiling antiviral drugs.
The liability provision offers broad legal protection for the makers of drugs, vaccines, and other medical “countermeasures” used when the HHS secretary declares an emergency. The provision says people claiming injury from a medical countermeasure can sue only if they prove “willful misconduct” by those who made or administered it. The bill calls for Congress to set up a compensation program for injuries, but it provides no funds for that purpose.
…But Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and some other Democrats, along with consumer groups such as Public Citizen, derided the liability provision as a giveaway to the drug industry.
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Tags: health
"In the United States, low profit margins and an increase in vaccine-related lawsuits led many manufacturers to stop producing the DPT vaccine by the early 1980s. By 1985, vaccine manufacturers had difficulty obtaining liability insurance. The price of DPT vaccine skyrocketed, leading providers to curtail purchases, limiting availability. Only one company was still manufacturing pertussis vaccine in the US by the end of 1985. Because of this, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) in 1986, establishing a federal no-fault system to compensate victims of injury caused by mandated vaccines."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act#cite_note-Smith_1988-11
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/s969#summary
"One year after publishing the draft pandemic flu plan, the [Bush] administration has still not released the final HHS Pandemic Flu Preparedness Plan," Obama said in his 2005 Senate speech.
From Senator Obama's 2005 speech:
"Mr. President, at this point, no one should be surprised. The experts have told us repeatedly that a flu pandemic is inevitable, although the timing is unpredictable. In other words, the question is not if, but when. This spread of avian flu is our warning signal, and we need to heed this call to action."
"The last condition--the ability for the virus to travel efficiently from human to human--has not been met, and it is the only thing preventing a full blown pandemic. Once this virus mutates and can be transmitted from human to human, we will not be able to contain this disease."
http://obamaspeeches.com/032-Avian-Flu-Obama-Speech.htm