Flu Pandemic: Is the U.S. Ready?

U.S. Newswire, March, 2008

To: HEALTH EDITORS

Contact: Charles B. Henderson of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 1-314-444-8311, Mobile, 1-314-609-5972, charles.b.henderson@stls.frb.org

ST. LOUIS, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- If history is any guide, a modern-day influenza pandemic in the United States would likely hit city dwellers and non-whites the hardest, based on an economic analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Thomas A. Garrett, an economist with the St. Louis Fed, wrote the analysis for the March/April issue of Review, the Reserve Bank's bi- monthly journal of economic and business issues. The publication is also available online at the St. Louis Fed's web site: http:// research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review.

Researchers at the U.S. Center for Disease...

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