Vaccine alone is useless without syringes. Consider the impact of a pandemic on syringe availability. Advance planning is the only way to ensure that public health agencies will have the syringes needed to vaccinate 300 million Americans in a timely fashion.

BD. Our Commitment.

At BD we take emergency planning seriously, particularly around pandemic influenza.
BD actions include:

• Developing a response plan so we can continue to meet our customers’ needs in a time of crisis.
  
  
• Building our own safety stock of critical items, together with distributors and customers, to maintain supply chain operations.
  
  
• Helping healthcare providers be prepared for a pandemic influenza crisis.
  
  
• Actively communicating with government agencies to ensure that critical medical supplies are included in emergency planning.