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[Andy Stevermer] ASPR begins planning for large special events
like the inauguration, months and months in advance; sometimes a year in advance.
[Ted Kennedy] Welcome to the final coordination call for
the 58th presidential inauguration. As many of you know, this is the largest event we
support. There are over 600 personnel from H H S supporting this event.
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[Brian Pittman] We got 5 M L K’s going on there.
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[Glenn Blanchette] Inaugural period: 19th through the 21st.
250,000 people expected in here.
[Ted Kennedy] We approach each presidential inauguration
with an extreme amount of planning and preparation. It’s a lot of people in an enclosed space,
and they’re probably very energized. But like political conventions, state of the union
addresses or the Independence Day celebrations on the National Mall, we’re there to provide
public health and medical support for what we think will happen, and are ready for a
lot of those things that used to be unthinkable. It’s a very large and very coordinated effort.
[Glenn Blanchette] The N S S E requires federal support. H H S
provides the public health and medical side of that support. We do this by working with
our federal, state and local partners, to include U. S. Secret Service, FEMA, the state
and local public health, state and local emergency management, local fire departments and emergency
medical services.
Just from H H S you have the Assistant Secretary
for Preparedness and Response, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease
Control and the U. S. Public Health Service.
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[Jerry Hill] We prepare and maintain the medical equipment
that the health and medical task force need in the field during national special security
events or a national disaster. We push it out to the site and then support and supply
any re-supply that’s necessary during the event.
[Ingrid Reynolds] We’re trying to set up all of our trauma
supplies in an easy to use fashion so that everybody can access it quickly in a time of
need.
[Raymond Paquin] We can have them hanging off the poles like
we usually do in a hospital.
[Helga Scharf-Bell] We have various capabilities here. In one
room we have our trauma bay. In another room we have a pediatric bay. We have an O B area,
and then we have multiple medical surgical areas that we can help anybody that comes
into our trailer today.
[Andy Stevermer] As the event gets closer and closer, we begin
to engage those individuals who will actually be doing the operational command and control
of the event.
[Tony Voiron] The teams that we’re coordinating, it’s
a combination of Veteran’s Affairs, National Disaster Medical System. These are doctors,
nurses, paramedics that are from your community that we bring in to a federal status to help
us support response. Some of the other ones are public health service
officers made up of doctors, nurses, and we bring them together and we form teams. And
so the I R C T helps make sure the teams know where to go, know what we’re asking them
to do, and when they’re supposed to be doing it.
[Glenn Blanchette] We’re providing support to our federal partners
and to the District of Columbia. The main focus is that steady state; medical care out
on the grounds of the Capitol, the Mall and the parade route. And then, prepare to respond
to and provide support if there is a shooting, there’s a stampede – whatever that may
be – we’re there to provide that support.
[Tony Voiron] While all of our teams that are providing
support during the event then can change gears and help support the response to an event
that generates casualties, we have additional teams staged around the area that can help
augment those teams, and then we can keep on.. there’s a tiered response – we can
keep on bringing in additional people as required.
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