Students, please comment on this post, leaving your response to the following prompt:
While responding to a pandemic, what are the most critical issues that need to be discussed?
Students, please comment on this post, leaving your response to the following prompt:
While responding to a pandemic, what are the most critical issues that need to be discussed?
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Team Viral
- how to control spread of the disease
- ensure future stability of society
– keep communication open
– reduce panic
– utilities and normal functions
- quick and effective response
- accurate and up to date information; good surveillance
- keep a global perspective
Issues of sharing in a global setting (intellectual property rights, source of the vaccine). Distribution of scarce resources. Demographic of those affected. Containment strategies. Communication to the general public. Allocation of vaccines (who gets it). Getting good epidemiological data. Political motivations of countries. Distribution the financial burden of vaccinations (developing country – who’s going to finance the vaccines).
Team 9 – The Flu Devils.
The most critical issues to be considered include availability and production capabilities of the vaccine, maintaining social order during the pandemic, epidemiological data, adequate and accurate media response, and the long term impact of the immediate response.
- vaccination priorities (ethical frameworks)
- communication and information/benefit sharing
- understanding personal justice systems
- immediate humanitarian responses
- surveillance and detection of virus
- research on virus and immediate production of vaccines
Team 2: The Flu Fighters
- containment/prevention of disease
- preventing vaccines from becoming a commodity
- ensuring a functioning society after the pandemic (utility/equity/cultural preservation)
- maintain public order: justification accepted by the public
- international cooperation
Team 3: The Plague
The most critical issues to us are as follows:
- Research and Development (Who gets virus samples? Who manufactures a vaccine?)
- Diagnostic and surveillance tools (Who is Patient Zero? What are the symptoms?)
- Strategic planning of resource/vaccine allocation
- Pandemic containment
- What to spread through/keep from the media and general public
- International communication and collaboration
Team 10:
We need to identify who is at risk, how the virus is transmitted and what steps need to be taken to maintain national stability. It’s most important to determine exactly what kind of pandemic it is, for example, would any age group possibly have acquired immunity. It is also very important to consider the needs of underrepresented populations and socially vulnerable populations when implementing a response strategy.
TEAM 4
The most critical issues that need to be discussed:
-transfer of technology and research
-confirm diagnoses
-media
-susceptibility of population
-allocation and availability of vaccine, who gets the vaccine?
-prevention and containment
Critical Issues in responding to pandemic: Team 7 “The Influenza Invasion”
Containment, surveillance,developing and producing vaccines successfully, maintain the infrastructure and economy, social justice and stability, high moral, Oprah, maintaining security, communication, global cooperation
Team Vaccinators thinks that the most critical issues to be considering when faced with a pandemic are:
1) Gathering epidemiological data.
2) Determining a global or national plan.
3) Obtaining the raw materials for manufacturing a vaccine.
4) Protecting the people making/distributing the vaccine.
5) Informing the public to reduce panic.
1) Minimize illness and death
2) Minimize social disruption
3) PHASES to analyze carefully: Preparedness, communication, surveillance, detection, response, and containment.
4) Under surveillance:
Signs and symptoms, potential sources of outbreak, mortality rate, susceptible populations, rate of spread.