[homeles_ot-l] FW: WHO raises global pandemic flu alert to level 6; are some left out of pandemic planning?- WI backgrounder

[Lynne Browne]

FYI . . . Lynne Browne

Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH)

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From: hhno-on-owner at povnet.org [mailto:hhno-on-owner at povnet.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Shapcott
Sent: June 11, 2009 1:43 PM
To: Michael Shapcott
Subject: [hhno-on] WI backgrounder: WHO raises global pandemic flu alert to
level 6; are some left out of pandemic planning?

 

The World Health Organization has just raised the HYPERLINK
"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2009/h1n1_pandemic_phase6_20
090611/en/index.html"global pandemic flu alert to level 6 - "the world is
now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic", according to WHO Director
General Dr Margaret Chan at a press conference earlier today. The Wellesley
Institute has produced HYPERLINK
"http://wellesleyinstitute.com/when-it-comes-pandemics-no-one-can-be-left-ou
t"research and policy reports in recent days that raise the question of
whether the pandemic flu plans of the Ontario government cover every one.
Everyone is affected by a pandemic, but not everyone is affected equally.
For instance, the standard advice of a "home quarantine" for people
suffering from flu or flu-like symptoms doesn't work for people who are
homeless or precariously housed. Similarly, the advice to stockpile 72 hours
worth of food won't work for the estimated one million Torontonians who
relied on foodbanks last year.

 

-          Michael

 

 

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Wellesley Institute 

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E-mail:   michael at wellesleyinstitute.com

 

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