Irwin Redlener
Irwin Redlener
Irwin Redlener is a pediatrician and public health activist who specializes in health care for underserved children, health care reform, and disaster planning, response, and recovery. He is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 August 1944
CountryUnited States of America
predict quick turn
I wouldn't be too quick to predict how this is going to turn out,
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Within the next six months, we'll have infected birds in the U.S..
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We're only missing one more piece before it becomes a pandemic and that is the ability to be transmitted from person to person as opposed to simply from birds or fowl to humans,
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We're playing Russian roulette with public health here.
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I would like to see a new national discussion about what prepared means, how it's measured and what we should expect. Since 9-11, the nation has spent tens of billions of dollars on preparedness, yet we can account for very little and can hardly say what actually has been accomplished.
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You have sewage contaminating the water supply. You not only have the danger of the sewage itself, the need for water is one of the primary needs that must be fulfilled and people will drink dirty water, if they get thirsty enough.
danger dirty drink fulfilled needs people primary thirsty water
You have sewage contaminating the water supply, ... You not only have the danger of the sewage itself, the need for water is one of the primary needs that must be fulfilled and people will drink dirty water, if they get thirsty enough.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
driver government larger necessary principal
The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
probable
Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
extremely grim looking prospects
What we are looking at are extremely grim prospects for the future. This is a very overwhelmed system.
law martial united
The translation of this is martial law in the United States,
affected children
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.