Are Billions of Bioterrorism Dollars Making Us Safer?
Are Billions of Bioterrorism Dollars Making Us Safer? Thursday January 13, 2005#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)Since 2001, the federal government has spent almost $3 billion developing strategies to prevent or at least prepare for bioterrorism attacks. Have we gotten our money’s worth? Are we better prepared now than we were when everybody was checking their mail for anthrax-grams? The Century Foundation offers this assessment. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13, 2005-After the anthrax attacks of fall 2001, Congress made the single largest investment in state and local public health capacities since World War II. But after spending almost $3 billion to date on public health preparedness, how much better prepared are we for a terrorist attack? With the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Century Foundation Working Group on Bioterrorism Preparedness has studied how these funds have been used and assessed what has been done well, what gaps remain, and what
Are Billions of Bioterrorism Dollars Making Us Safer? Thursday January 13, 2005 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)Since 2001, the federal government has spent almost $3 billion developing strategies to prevent or at least prepare for bioterrorism attacks. Have we gotten our money’s worth? Are we better prepared now than we were when everybody was checking their mail for anthrax-grams? The Century Foundation offers this assessment. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13, 2005-After the anthrax attacks of fall 2001, Congress made the single largest investment in state and local public health capacities since World War II. But after spending almost $3 billion to date on public health preparedness, how much better prepared are we for a terrorist attack? With the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Century Foundation Working Group on Bioterrorism Preparedness has studied how these funds have been used and assessed what has been done well, what gaps remain, and what
