[Corpses would pile up.] The mortuary service would not be able to handle the numbers of dead, ... There would be no place to take them. |
Are we adequately prepared? ... No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happened next week, the public would be outraged that we waited and ignored the concerns and now people in every neighborhood were dying. |
In our lifetime, we have not seen a disease sweep through a community and people die so fast that there's no one to take care of them at the hospital and there's no one to bury them. That's what will happen in a pandemic. It would be more deaths than all the world's wars in all of human history. All within the space of six to 18 months. |
People basically and particularly [physically fit young males] are highly likely to become infected and develop complications, possibly even die, ... Why do I say that? In 1918, the people who more frequently died were in their teens to 40s. No one knows why. |
There's every reason in the world to look at this, |
We still use 1940s technology to develop influenza vaccines. |
What we really don't want to see is an epidemic of panic. |