Arming for an emergency. Hospitals may be more ready for a pandemic now than a year ago, but experts say some preparations are just lip service.
After months of work and millions of dollars awarded to state and local governments, U.S. hospitals are still less than ready to face a pandemic or bioterrorism-related emergency, according to disease experts. But it's difficult to be completely prepared for such an event, they say. "You don't know when it's going to come, where it will be, whether you'll have medicines to fight it," says Tammy Lundstrom, left.
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