Some states are ill-prepared for a flu pandemic, says report
Posted on Dec 19th 2007 6:01PM by Brian White
A report out this week that focused on flu preparation nationwide has found that seven states still have not responded to a federal program meant to prepare each state for a national flu pandemic.Thirteen U.S. states were deemed as ill-prepared for a possible flu pandemic due to not having adequate vaccine distribution plans in place related to the stockpile of vaccines that would be available from the U.S. federal government.
The best-prepared states that participated in all ten steps of the national flu vaccine preparedness program were Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia. The lowest scores went to Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Nevada, Wisconsin and Wyoming.












