In Ontario, at the family medicine level, it's really important for the committee to understand that H1N1 and seasonal flu are community infections. SARS affected the hospital environment; it was a very severe disorder, and people needed to be in hospital.
What we're dealing with is outbreaks that affect the communities and the people who live and work in the communities. I don't think there has been as much emphasis on supplying the equipment, the human resources, and the information that the front-line family doctors and public health nurses need in order to really get ready for both seasonal flu and H1N1 flu.
We need, in each and every season, to get as many people as possible vaccinated for the seasonal flu. That taxes both public health and family practices. We will now be dealing with a vaccine for two different strains almost simultaneously, by the time we get seasonal flu into people and start doing H1N1, at the same time as we're trying to deal with very sick patients in the community. We're very worried about our abilities to cope with the workload.
We haven't been given the supplies that we require, both from—