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Author Topic: CDC's Recommendations for Hurricanes or Tropical Storms  (Read 591 times)
carolinarider09
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« on: August 23, 2021, 09:51:52 AM »

Here is what the CDC says you should do to prepare for upcoming tropical storms or hurricanes. 

Get a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as you can. COVID-19 vaccines help protect you from getting sick or severely ill with COVID-19 and may also help protect people around you.

Get emergency supplies: Stock your home and your car with supplies. Give yourself more time than usual to prepare your emergency food, water, and medicine supplies. Home delivery is the safest choice for buying disaster supplies; however, that may not be an option for everyone. If in-person shopping is your only choice, take steps to protect your and others’ health when running essential errands.

Make a plan: Create a family disaster plan.

Prepare to evacuate: Never ignore an evacuation order. Pay attention to local guidance about updated plans for evacuations and shelters, including shelters for your pets.

Protect older adults: Understand older adult health and medical concerns.

Protect your pets: Ensure your pet’s safety before, during, and after a hurricane.

When you check on neighbors and friends, be sure to follow social distancing recommendations (staying at least 6 feet from others) and other CDC recommendations to protect yourself and others.

So, the first thing you need to do, according the CDC is to get a "shot".   No prepare a plan.  Not make sure you have emergency supplies, but get the "shot". 

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/features/hurricanepreparedness/index.html
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Serk
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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2021, 10:21:27 AM »

Makes sense for a couple reasons.

-The CDC looks at things from the point of view of disease control, not overall disaster readiness. (They're the Center for Disease Control, not a general disaster readiness agency.)
-Good chance if things get ugly there will be thousands of people crammed into close quarters for extended periods of time. Prime breeding ground for disease, and thus being vaccinated before possibly being placed in such a situation is a smart thing to do. While living in a pandemic of a highly communicable disease, I wouldn't want to be in this situation for days on end without being vaccinated:


(West Boynton shelter in Palm Beach County Florida, hurricane Irma back in 2017)
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carolinarider09
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2021, 10:58:22 AM »

You would think that would be the case, however, the website I linked above is a sort of "different" website.  Its from the CDC but the heading is "National Center for Environmental Health". 

If you just look at the CDC website for Natural Disasters and Severe Weather (link below), and you look the the various disasters via their links, there is nothing above getting the vaccine.  Not for a hurricane, not for an earthquake, not for a flood. 

https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/index.html

The point being, the website has been developed with a COVID-19 Vaccination lean.  Won't find it on the following links (at least that I can find by searching, did not read every work).

https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/floods/index.html

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