A couple of small random thoughts:

I got a group e-mail from my DMAT admin. officer a couple of days ago, asking if I spoke Spanish had one of the special government passports. Hmmm. Yesterday, I got one checking on my immune system health. I suspect this is just forward thinking by our local command staff (the best leaders I have ever worked with) rather than a national thing, but I have heard that some anti-virals from the national pharmaceutical stockpile have been partially deployed.

National and international disease surveillance and cooperation seems to be working very well, doesn't it? A benefit from H5N1 "bird flu" preps, I guess, as well as good experience and practice for a really nasty future pandemic to come.

The interaction of public health, national politics, and mass media has been interesting to watch, at least for a public health geek like me.

This strain's emergence comes as a surprise, but it's not a particularly bad one, it seems. Time will tell. It also seems susceptible to current anti-virals.

Stay well. You guys know how already. Personally, I'm screwed, since I'm bound to get repeatedly exposed if it comes my way, an occupational hazard.