“That sounds more severe than really it is. This is standard operating procedure and allows us to free up federal, state, and local agencies and their resources for prevention and mitigation; it allows us to use medication and diagnostic tests that we might not otherwise be able to use, particularly on very young children; and it releases funds for the acquisition of additional antivirals.”
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
These are the words that immediately followed “public health emergency in the United States”. Apparently this was too long of a sound bite for national media.
