It really depends on the disease. The most worrisome is a pandemic of influenza, because of its large scale. The interesting thing, though, is that more people die from influenza between pandemics than during pandemics--from regular every-year flu. We lose about 4,000 people a year from influenza, which is much greater than the worst predictions we can think of, for even one as bad as 1918-19. So prevention immunization on an annual basis is important.
As I mentioned earlier, we operate the national emergency stockpile. Provinces have their stockpiles. When it comes to influenza, which is the one we're most concerned about, we have a joint stockpile, plus what we've supplemented federally. We think we would have enough, assuming it is effective, for whatever the pandemic strain would be.
We could treat in the meantime, while we get vaccines into people's arms. We have a domestic-based manufacturer that can produce enough vaccine for the whole country. We're the only country in the world that has developed that capacity.