It does look like most Western countries are obscuring the current level of
pandemic alert.
Probably out of some misguided attempt not to cause panic, or confusion of using
the system with the currently low level of virulence.

However, since many pandemic plan thresholds may be based on your local
countries alert level, we are missing out on that important warning flag.

I have noticed this in Canada as well. Reviewing the Canadian national pandemic
plan:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cpip-pclcpi/pdf-e/cpip-eng.pdf

Local alert levels are modified from the WHO level with the addition of a
decimal place for local outbreak information:


PHAC Sub-Phase Public Health Agency of Canada
n.0 No activity observed in Canada,
n.1 Single case(s) observed in Canada (i.e., no clusters), and
n.2 Localized or widespread activity observed in Canada.


From this we can deduce that Canada may be at 6.2. Other countries may be using
a similar system.
Due to the nature of this pandemic, with a currently low level of virulence,
countries are modifying their pandemic level in a manner not currently
documented.

Regards,
Barry Bortnick
NEOVIA BCP Specialist


--- In discussbusinesscontinuity@yahoogroups.com, "Ray Krukowski"
<ray.krukowski@...> wrote:
>
> Does anybody have an idea what happened to the US Federal Goverment Pandemic
Stages? The current US Pandemic Stage use to be posted on the Pandemicflu.gov
and CDC web sites. Then two days after WHO went from Phase 3 to 4 it
disappeared. All of their reference material still have charts which include
both Phases and Stages. But to stop referencing it on the web site seemed
somewhat strange. Did we just go from 0 to 6 during that time? Nothing was
every really published about what happened to the stages.
>
> I was wondering how many companies had plans were they documented various
actions to be taken based on the US Federal Goverment Stages as a trigger point
and that impacted them.
>
> Any feedback or discussion would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>