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Some public-health experts say this kind of user-fueled data-tracking may start to help government health officials' efforts to recognize outbreaks. Real-time warnings would allow authorities to stay well ahead of potential pandemics, prepare local populations with appropriate prevention and treatment, and reduce overall illness and deaths. The Google Flu Trends service, which was launched in the U.S. in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is now working with Mexican officials to track search trends in that country. The goal is to help authorities discern whether and where the disease is spreading, getting...
...other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency. We are very fortunate in our response to H1N1 that state and local health agencies have been exercising a plan for a response to a pandemic for many years. We have labs that are able to receive our test kits and are using those to test for the virus locally. You can't put a price tag on preparation for a pandemic...
...feels that she is slowly losing touch with her son Conor but doesn’t know how to help him; Walt Steckl, the town’s loitering electrician, can’t help drinking and falls into unruly lewdness when he does; Angela, a student at the local college, clings pathetically to her ever-elusive professor and lover Stuart, while he, in turn, struggles with his writing. As their lives intersect—at times in unexpected ways—the book evokes the particularly tragic chaos of suburban existence in which adults, unwilling and untethered, slowly slide...
...know the story. With the flurry of acceptance letters comes inspirational, vomit-inducing stories in local papers. You know, the ones extolling the admitted students' virtues (brainy, friendly, well-liked, and modest!), detailing the horrible, horrible dilemma of being accepted to multiple schools with various scholarship options (Harvard?! or Princeton?? or Stanford??? or a FULL RIDE TO [insert state school]?!?! OMG MY LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT!! FML!!), and of course, FlyBy's favorite—recounting highly storied anecdotes from their time as a precocious child budding with Ivy League potential ("Alfonso was always the first to finish coloring...
Yeah, these stories sell. Especially when local reporters manage to make you look more insufferable than you actually are. Parents intent on breeding Harvard graduates cut these out and pin them above their offspring's beds for nightly inspiration...