http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2009/05/07/a-most-catastrophic-nomination/ Aka George Smith e-mail: webmaster at dickdestiny Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:37:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2009/05/07/a-most-catastrophic-nomination/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Gigi Gronvall Sun, 10 May 2009 00:25:35 +0000 http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/?p=47#comment-22 Do you want a health system infrastructure that can detect clinical disease, treat patients, and offer preventative care to those not immediately affected, whether the disease is natural (SARS, H1N1 flu, or dengue) or deliberate? Do you want leaders who understand that managing an epidemic is substantially different than managing other crises-- that they will need different expertise, will need different sets of data to understand what is going on, will need to prepare for a crisis to go on and on and on, all the while trying to reassure the public that they are doing what can be done? Can we manage to make drugs and vaccines more cost effectively and more quickly-- better than the industry averages of nearly a billion dollars per drug and 8-10 years-- so we can actually respond to a crisis? If so, you will appreciate the Center for Biosecurity's work and be impressed with Tara O'Toole's leadership of it. I suggest you actually look at what we do, and what she has done, versus making false and biased assumptions. Go to www.upmc-biosecurity.org. Gigi Gronvall, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC Do you want a health system infrastructure that can detect clinical disease, treat patients, and offer preventative care to those not immediately affected, whether the disease is natural (SARS, H1N1 flu, or dengue) or deliberate? Do you want leaders who understand that managing an epidemic is substantially different than managing other crises– that they will need different expertise, will need different sets of data to understand what is going on, will need to prepare for a crisis to go on and on and on, all the while trying to reassure the public that they are doing what can be done? Can we manage to make drugs and vaccines more cost effectively and more quickly– better than the industry averages of nearly a billion dollars per drug and 8-10 years– so we can actually respond to a crisis? If so, you will appreciate the Center for Biosecurity’s work and be impressed with Tara O’Toole’s leadership of it. I suggest you actually look at what we do, and what she has done, versus making false and biased assumptions. Go to http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org.
Gigi Gronvall, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC

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