DISCUSSION: Prioritization in the Critical Infrastructure (CI) Group

COMMENT: Welcome from your Facilitators

Submitted by Nicholas Dewar   on 12/5/07 6:12 AM

Welcome to the second day of our web dialogue about vaccination prioritization for pandemic influenza.

If you don't know much about pandemic influenza, this dialogue is for you. This web dialogue was intended especially to bring people up to speed who don't know much about this. During a pandemic influenza outbreak there will be no time to educate the public and the draft guidance being reviewed today is being shared so people can ask questions and learn what will happen when there is an outbreak in your community. It is important to the federal, state and local governments to address your basic questions, and hear what will and won’t work in your community about vaccine prioritization. There has been a tremendously rich conversation so far. Many of the people posting comments know a lot about pandemic flu. We encourage those of you who don't know ANYTHING about pandemic flu (in fact ESPECIALLY if you don't know anything!) to post your questions and comments (remember the only “dumb” question is the one that you didn’t ask).

There’s a group of Facilitators ready to help you be as effective as possible in the dialogue. There’s also a team of Panelists reading your postings and ready to answer your questions.

You can start in now by clicking on the “Reply to this Comment” button at the foot of any comment box. Also, if you strongly agree with a comment, but don’t want to add a comment of your own, you can click the “I agree with this comment” box that appears beneath each comment.

We’re glad that you’re able to participate today. Don’t hang back, just jump right in!

Nicholas, Don and Johanna
Your Facilitators