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San Francisco officials say Ebola response tested systems; monitoring of travelers continues
Summary
Public health officials described an extensive Ebola readiness effort, including DOC activation, monitoring of returning travelers, hospital PPE training and waste-management planning; DPH said monitoring has returned to routine units but the DOC remains ready to reactivate if needed.
Naveena Bhabha, director of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Branch, and Dr. Cora Hoover, director of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, told commissioners that San Francisco activated its Department Operations Center (DOC) during the Ebola response and staffed more than 100 personnel for planning and operations.
Bhabha summarized systemwide work: implementing CDC- and HHS-aligned capability frameworks, standing up monitoring protocols for returning…
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