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To: CusterInvestor who wrote (370)	3/13/2006 3:48:11 PM
From: Sam Citron	Respond to of 428

But what about the "jelly factor" with Res-Q-Vac? In interviews, experts in respiratory medicine and emergency preparedness offered other suggestions for dealing with an emergency, including the use of hand bags by teams of volunteers or family members as was done in New Orleans hospitals during Hurricane Katrina. But hand-bagging is exhausting, and flu patients may need assistance for weeks. "You can do it for maybe 10 minutes before your forearms turn to jelly," said Amy Nichols, an infection control specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. "Think of squeezing a mushy football — that's the kind of pressure you have to create to fill engorged lungs."