CIO Council Pandemic Committee
June 2007 Report
Deliverables
We provide constant surveillance over the world’s news media. We routinely go over current events. We are seeking and conducting peer review of agency pandemic
plans. Our Website is an excellent portal for preparedness info. Soon, our pandemic e-newsletter will be back in circulation. The Florida Channel has asked to continue carrying all our meetings
live on statewide television. This has a larger audience than you would imagine, and reinforces us as the most transparent of all the pandemic groups – if there are other pandemic groups out there! So wear makeup.
Key Assumptions Assessments of individual agency preparedness are pointless and worthless, because we
have no mandate to do so and no one cares right now about pandemics, save for us. So we will continue to harass and harangue those agencies who do not actively participate,
and work closely with those that do want to join us. We will provide, via meetings and Website info, the information agencies need to prepare. We will discuss best practices and we will absorb and implement what we can. But we want agencies as a whole to prepare, not just IT. So we also need to “eat our own dog food” and make formal requests for masks, hand
sanitizer, gloves and other non-pharmaceutical interventions for us and for our staff. This will continue to remind decision-makers that government won’t run on goodwill alone
when a pandemic strikes. Maybe we can’t stockpile Tamiflu (actually we can as individuals), but we can do what we
must to protect our people.
WorldviewApril – June, 2007
Denver, Co., United States
Wichita, Kansas
Great Britain
Wales
H7N2 outbreak in poultry Moves quickly to humans
256 tested for H7N2 17 positives
Mild avian flu, but with pandemic potential
Egypt
PakistanA Pakistani farmer displays two chickens infected with H5N1
Kabul, Afghanistan
China
Disinfecting in Hunan, China, in wake of outbreak and hospitalization of Chinese Army soldier.
Vietnam
National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hanoi
Its most famous current resident
Intensive Care, H5N1 patient.Died Saturday.First Vietnamese H5N1 death since November, 2005.
Also is sixth death in same province.
Cambodia
US Ambassador to Cambodia delivers medical supplies with help of bird flu awareness mascot.
Indonesia
Medan, Indonesia
Jembrana, Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia
Singapore, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sydney, AustraliaAPEC meeting