By HELEN BRANSWELL
Canadian Press
TORONTO - Public health authorities in Canada’s largest city called for more capacity in hospitals to handle a surge of patients as they released the first version of the city’s pandemic influenza plan on Thursday.
They also asked for guidance on the use of masks by the public.
The plan, a work in progress, includes strategies for the handling of large numbers of corpses, the provision of police security for eventual vaccine clinics, and the mounting of animal rescue operations to care for pets whose owners fall ill or die.
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