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Public Health and EMSPublic Health and EMSHow Long Do You Have to Live?

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PerceptionPerceptionFor Official Use Only

The “3-C’s”The “3-C’s”

Communication

Cooperation

Coordination

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Michigan Health Michigan Health Alert NetworkAlert Network(MIHAN)(MIHAN)

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CoordinationCoordinationFor Official Use Only

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2 Public Health Missions2 Public Health Missions

Pandemics

Bioterrorism

All hazard planning

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Seasonal InfluenzaSeasonal Influenza

Seasonal Influenza hospitalizes 200,000 annually

36,000 die from seasonal influenza annuallySpread of flu spreads from person to person

occurs rapidlyMonitoring (surveillance) is key to

determining responseWearing of mask – WASHING OF HANDS

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Pandemic InfluenzaPandemic Influenza

After several different age groups and higher risk individuals

Pandemics occur on an average of every three or four decades

When they occur, followed by multiple waves after initial outbreak

Overwhelms local public healthImpacts clinical practitioners/emergency

respondersSocial & economic destruction

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Pandemic PlanningPandemic Planning

World Health Organization (WHO) distribute preparedness plan making recommendations

All local public health have a planLocal public health follow the Centers for Disease

Control direction In 2009 outbreak 13,000 killed and 60 million

were sickened

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Mission #2Mission #2

Provide (oral) prophylaxis to 100% of population within 48 hours from the federal government’s release of SNS

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BioWatch ProgramBioWatch ProgramFOUOFOUO

Air monitoring systemDetects for toxins in the airOperates through Department of Homeland

SecurityMajor populated areas

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Strategic National StockpileStrategic National Stockpile(SNS)(SNS)

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Strategic National StockpileStrategic National StockpileFor Official Use Only

• The medicine in the SNS is FREE for everyone.

• The SNS has stockpiled enough medicine to protect people in several large cities at the same time.

• Federal, state and local community planners are work together to ensure that the SNS medicines will be delivered to the affected area to protect you and your family if there is a terrorist attack.

Guidance ProvidedGuidance Provided

Pandemic Influenza SurveillanceLaboratory DiagnosticsHealth Care PlanningInfection ControlClinical GuidelinesVaccine Distribution and UseCommunity Control and PreventionPublic Health Communications

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ResponseResponse

Plan Initiated

Risk Communication Process Initiated

Vaccination Order from CDC

Vaccination Clinics Established

Thousands of Volunteers Needed

Control of Clients Responding to Clinics

On-going Surveillance and Operations for Possibly Months

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Anthrax LettersAnthrax Letters

5 grams5 deaths

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BioterrorismBioterrorism

Macomb County has 14 Points of Dispensing (PODs) with 2 distribution nodes

Each site contains set-up equipment for establishing the POD

Between 50,000 and 60,000 people will Notified through mass

electronic mediaMany times zip codes are usedEmergency plans exist for each site

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BioterrorismBioterrorism

Law enforcement/EMS play important role

Public require consistent messaging

Human resources remain the key component for

operations

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