numbers for thought

Posting a small extract from the Qld order news.
Just consider, if a State with the small population of Qld is ordering this volume of anti virals - how many orders are sitting world wide, waiting to be filled? It's a mind blowing exercise to look at the worlds population, then take the so called developed countries with the funds to place orders - and just begin to imagine.
I would expect significant news on even more production rises soon.
Extract:
Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson said the drug stockpile was the centrepiece of a $1.65 million government package designed to better prepare Queensland for bird flu or influenza pandemic.

He said the 30,000 courses of Tamiflu and Relenza would be used to treat infected patients as well as emergency and hospital workers in the event of an outbreak of influenza pandemic.

Politicians would not receive the treatment, but some members of the media might, he said.

"The advice is that such an outbreak would be local and that having that store of 30,000 courses of treatment is enough to control the spread in the first instance," he said.

Queensland was preparing a strategic plan to deal with various scenarios in the case of a flu pandemic and hoped to release that by the end of the year, Mr Robertson said.