The plans Bush released last weekaboutpreparing for an outbreak of avian flu arecommendable; the challenge will be putting them into effect.

The United States' insufficient supply of H1N1 vaccines to inoculate our population demonstrates how poorly prepared we are to confront a pandemic.

We must begin to make our plans more broad-based to encompass the most threatening of pandemic scenarios.

Legislators should adopt policies that encourage companies to make vaccines more quickly and less expensively.