National Emergency

Your Disaster Plan: Solid or Shaky?

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 04.11.2012

Jeffrey Shaffer

My question for everyone who felt the ground moving in August is: are you okay for next time, all prepared for what could be a really massive shaker?

Obama Declares Swine Flu A National Emergency

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON � President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move em...

A "National Emergency?" No, a National Anxiety Attack

Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Jay Gordon, MD

The possibility of your healthy child "being hooked to a respirator" because of Swine Flu is incredibly small. To imply otherwise is an unintelligent scare tactic.

Are We in a National Emergency Hoax?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.25.2011

Kathleen Reardon

If H1N1 is a national emergency and an informed hospital health care worker I overhead talking today is right, that most of the flu we're now seeing is H1N1, then what is going on?