"The original 2005 Plan was audacious in its goals—for domestic pandemic vaccine production capacity, for stockpiling of antiviral drugs and pre-pandemic vaccines, and for using community mitigation measures to slow spread of disease...The 2005 Pandemic Influenza Plan and subsequent updates focused planning for a severe pandemic with effects that would extend beyond health consequences to include social and economic disruption...
...Community mitigation aims to slow the spread of a novel influenza virus in communities through the use of NPIs and threat-appropriate travel and border health measures. Community mitigation measures are the first line of defense against pandemic influenza, and may help reduce the spread of other respiratory infectious diseases. They can be used from the earliest stages of an influenza pandemic, including the initial months when the most effective countermeasure—a vaccine against the new pandemic virus—might not yet be broadly available...
The short version 17 pages, 2005.
National Strategy for PANDEMIC INFLUENZA
For those who want to be current 52 pages 2017
Pandemic Influenza Plan 2017 Update
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