Now, Lucy, what does “drill down” mean?
Lucy Savitz: Drill down? When we look at these maps, what we’re trying to do is to look at varying layers of information. I should point out that when we put these kinds of maps together, we are assembling data from multiple data sources that haven’t historically been viewed in the same way. And so bringing data from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, from the Census Bureau, and a lot of these bioterrorism planning areas are dynamic; they’re changing all the time. So we’ve had to get on the phones and talk to people in the States in the various regions to understand how HRSA BT areas are being reconfigured, how MMRS areas are being reconfigured, and what the corollary is across the States. Cindy DiBiasi: So what do you think? What are the major opportunities here for improving advanced planning and preparedness? Lucy Savitz: I think there are a couple of things that we see here that are really promising. One is that we can use these kinds of tools, the survey tool that we’
