[The breakdown of emergency communications will be a key topic at hearings planned on Capitol Hill. Disaster response experts hope the Katrina chaos will] serve as a wake-up call, ... in the first major test of our emergency response capabilities after September 11, we see once again our Achilles heel is the total meltdown of the infrastructure we rely on for communication. -John Cohen

 

[The breakdown of emergency communications will be a key topic at hearings planned on Capitol Hill. Disaster response experts hope the Katrina chaos will] serve as a wake-up call, ... in the first major test of our emergency response capabilities after September 11, we see once again our Achilles heel is the total meltdown of the infrastructure we rely on for communication.


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I am not optimistic in the least. I think that our vaccine supply this year will be equal to or less than last year.

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