How many state and local governments are prepared for a pandemic outbreak?
Funding from CDC’s Public Health Preparedness Cooperative Agreements has allowed state and local health agencies to enhance the capacity of their public health systems to respond to public health threats, including pandemic influenza. All states have emergency plans for responding to an influenza pandemic. All states have reviewed their public health legal authorities pertaining to isolation and quarantine. States are in various phases of updating regulations and legislation after reviewing their current authorities. CDC’s Public Health Law program is cataloging all state quarantine authorities. As part of planning for smallpox, all states have developed plans for mass immunization. In the past 12 months, all states conducted exercises to test components of their smallpox plans and 46 conducted exercises related to components of their pandemic influenza plan. Exercises such as these allow states and communities to identify weaknesses and take corrective action.
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