{"id":827,"date":"2007-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/04\/24\/the-rand-corporation-last-week-sounded-the-alarm-for-refocusing-the-nations-attention-on-a-potentia\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:38:14","slug":"the-rand-corporation-last-week-sounded-the-alarm-for-refocusing-the-nations-attention-on-a-potentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"The RAND Corporation last week sounded the alarm for refocusing the nation&#8217;s attention on a potentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RAND Corporation last week sounded the alarm for refocusing the nation&#8217;s attention on a potential pandemic outbreak, warning that the country is underprepared for a disaster that could claim as many as 2 million U.S. lives.   Lurie said a pandemic might kill 2 million U.S. residents and 50 million worldwide.  The federal government has invested more than $5 billion since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to upgrade the countrys ability to prevent and respond to large-scale public health emergencies, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lurie said progress has been made in using technology to improve communications and pandemic surveillance but that more investment was needed.<\/p>\n<p>As a step toward establishing methods to measure whether a community is ready for a large-scale health emergency, RAND recently convened an expert panel to come to a clear definition of public health preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/govhealthit.com\/article102525-04-20-07-Web<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}