would that include personnel resources to assisting the field meeting team deployment if necessary?
Thomas Reynolds: Great question. Yes. They can coordinate some of that through the CDC DEOC and through the mission assignment process to the federal government and that would work through the joint field office that FEMA would set up during the disaster. Their everyday function though for the senior management officials in the ground – on the ground is to work with their Department of Health on a multitude of issues. Only during the response, do they roll into controlling CDC assets on the ground. Question: On the technical specialty unit, did you call it? Thomas Reynolds: Yes, that’s what we call our scientific planning component. Question cont’d: And I believe you just said that because of the size they made, they might actually be located slightly differently than in your DEOC. Are you including your laboratory experts in that group? Thomas Reynolds: Absolutely. In the first block under the infectious disease team, it includes all of our laboratory network that is out there to (LRN
