Deb Steffen Quotations

We're so scattered all over the country--have a family plan of how you're going to notify each other and keep in touch.

We're in the middle of our migration season now where birds are flying. Are they going to bring it back to the Midwest on their flight patterns, we don't know. They're monitoring the birds closely--Alaska is the primary spot where they're watching the birds because it's the closest point where we would see contact.

We never know when a pandemic is going to hit so it's part of our bio-emergency planning.

With 15-35 percent of the population becoming ill, we're not going to be able to be stocking our store shelves like we do now.

You don't want a bunch of people panicking and terrified that we're not going to be able to do anything for them. We're developing our communications plans right now, and based on what we know, we can have some of that ready.

They would like to see people more sheltered at home to lower risk of transmission.

If Northwest Iowa hospitals get bogged down with a number of flu cases, maybe central Iowa has more facilities they could offer so we could spread people out to get the treatment they need.