Many Schools Unprepared For Next Pandemic - ABC News (blog) http://t.co/dwpwULq6
Reported by Tiffany Chao, M.D., and Shari Barnett, M.D., ABC News Medical Unit: During the school day, you leave your children’s health in the hands of the school nurse — but it’s hard to know if they are prepared for everything. Some forms of preparedness training, like fire drills and tornado drills, are mandated in schools. Yet readiness for infectious outbreaks is surprisingly low. Fewer than half of U.S. schools are prepared for the next pandemic, according to new research. Biosecurity researchers surveyed approximately 2,000 school nurses at elementary, middle, and high schools about their preparations for pandemics, like swine…
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