Disaster chief: US government, citizens alike are unprepared
USA Today
08/22/06
It's a dangerous world. And even five years after 9/11, the nation remains far from ready to respond in an effective way to a major disaster such as a terror attack or a flu pandemic, says Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In his new book, Americans at Risk (Knopf, $24), Redlener urges the federal government to develop a cohesive, coordinated approach to disaster planning — and Americans to emerge from a state of national denial...
http://tinyurl.com/ff4hx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
08/22/06
It's a dangerous world. And even five years after 9/11, the nation remains far from ready to respond in an effective way to a major disaster such as a terror attack or a flu pandemic, says Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In his new book, Americans at Risk (Knopf, $24), Redlener urges the federal government to develop a cohesive, coordinated approach to disaster planning — and Americans to emerge from a state of national denial...
http://tinyurl.com/ff4hx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 23. Aug, 13:41
