Great article from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) on how global businesses such as Marriot and FedEx dealt with the recent flu pandemic, and what lessons they learned from their experiences. Their main website offers news, business planning documents and links to journal articles, government and NGO resources and CIDRAP project informations. One of the most interesting to me was something called “Promising Practices: Pandemic Influenza Tools”.
Practices are listed by state, and are accessible from a color-coded US States map. Virginia, for example, is evidently something of a leader in this particular arena of public health, with 14 “practices” ranging from Norfolk’s novel program to link free H1N1 vaccinations for children in daycare with a free day at the zoo to the State Board of Election’s efforts to keep voters from spreading the flu during the November election. (I did use the hand sanitizer at our polling place, if I remember correctly…)