The report offers the following eight tips to help states become more prepared for outbreaks.
- Increase resources so every state can maintain epidemiology and laboratory abilities that are needed during outbreaks
- Update surveillance to occur in real time and be sharable across communities and health systems
- Incentivize the development of new vaccines or treatments and make sure they are distributable
- Decrease antibiotic overuse and increase vaccination rates
- Improve the ability for health systems to prepare for threats like an inundation of patients during an outbreak or the containment of an infectious organism
- Strengthen efforts and processes to reduce healthcare-associated infections
- Put strong measures in place to contain the hepatitis C epidemic
- Adopt strategies to end AIDS in every city and state
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