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...factor that hinders emergency response is the current lack of integration between federal, state and local authorities, argued Arnold M. Howitt, who is executive director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government...
...Right now there is a lot of jockeying between different agencies at different levels of government,” Howitt said. “At the moment, public health officials and police are simply not thinking about the same issues in the same...
...second initiative Howitt stressed involves the ability to respond to the threat of diseases effectively through the creation and sufficient supply of vaccines and appropriate medicines...
...However, Howitt explains that such treatments require a third step: the corresponding creation of health care systems and organized hospital facilities. Such facilities will need to be prepared to supply and distribute medication when faced with bioterrorism...
...Howitt said that without such a system, the process of identifying bioterrorist threats takes a dangerously long time...