Posted on 10/17/2009 2:07:41 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
As the H1N1 flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials are pointing to a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple of weeks.
Delays in producing the vaccine mean 28 million to 30 million doses, at most, will be divided around the country by the end of the month, not the 40 million-plus doses that states had been expecting. The new count from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention means anxiously awaited flu-shot clinics in some parts of the U.S. may have to be postponed.
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Thanks. It’s interesting that two world calamities happened so close in time. Maybe we’ll find out someday whether there is a correlation with the advance of medicine and anthropology.
It normally takes a year in advance to produce and distribute the flu vaccine. Normally the flu vaccination program does not start until October.
H1N1 was identified as a problem about 6 months ago. The vaccine is becoming available now, a remarkable achievement that had nothing to do with Obama.
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/vitamin-d-and-h1n1-swine-flu.shtml
It normally takes a year in advance to produce and distribute the flu vaccine. Normally the flu vaccination program does not start until October.
H1N1 was identified as a problem about 6 months ago. The vaccine is becoming available now, a remarkable achievement that had nothing to do with Obama.
What Scoop 7 brought back mutated into the Omega Man virus, which humanity to try to stop using nukes which exterminated most homo-sapiens and destroyed the biosphere (motivating the launch of the Ark dome ships which were self-destructed except one which went Silent Running out past Saturn) while hopping up ape intelligence leading to the Planet of the Apes.
It's all right there on film prior to 1972, man...
You’re welcome.
Every child that I have known in GA recovered well in just a few days.—The ones I have heard about that it hit harder had a secondary infection that took hold. Prayers up for your grandchild.
Well, shit fire Comedian, that’s the answer and the solution that the eco-freaks are looking for. And the media sounds as if they just want us to all give up and die, or at least let them dominate our lives for betterment of theirkind.
My solution is to buy a couple of new toothbrushes so you don’t keep re-infecting yourselves and the rest of you family.
Beef prevents Swine Flu.
Brought to you by the Beef Council, it’s what’s for dinner.
There is some preliminary data that Vitamin D helps modulate the immune system during an influenza infection. There is limited information about the effect, no good double blinded placebo controlled studies and no data which would indicate that Vitamin D should be used instead of the vaccine.
For what it is worth, I take Vitamin D daily. I also get vaccinated.
Yes. Sibelius and HHS said in the spring and early summer there would be enough vaccine. When it became clear in late summer that would not be the case, the media backed off reporting on what was happening in countries where H1N1 was hitting. Also noticed an increase in anti-vaccine rhetoric. I have no doubt some of that is coming from the left to cover up the fact Obama has botched this big time.
(note: concern about vaccine is legitimate. I'm only remarking that there is more talk of the dangers this year than normal. I see forums across the net spammed with it).
The 1976 swine flu outbreak, also known as the swine flu fiasco, or the swine flu debacle, was a strain of H1N1 influenza virus that appeared in 1976. Infections were only detected from January 19 to February 9, and were not found outside Fort Dix.[1] The outbreak is most remembered for the mass immunization that it prompted in the United States. The strain itself killed one person and hospitalized 13[citation needed]. However, side-effects from the vaccine caused 25 deaths.[2][citation needed]
On February 5, 1976, an army recruit at Fort Dix said he felt tired and weak. He died the next day and four of his fellow soldiers were later hospitalized. Two weeks after his death, health officials announced that swine flu was the cause of death and that this strain of flu appeared to be closely related to the strain involved in the 1918 flu pandemic. Alarmed public-health officials decided that action must be taken to head off another major pandemic, and they urged President Gerald Ford that every person in the U.S. be vaccinated for the disease. The vaccination program was plagued by delays and public relations problems, but about 24% of the population had been vaccinated by the time the program was canceled. Only one person, the Fort Dix army recruit, died from the flu.[2][3]
There were reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing neuromuscular disorder, affecting some people who had received swine flu immunizations. One of the causes of this syndrome could be a rare side-effect of modern influenza vaccines, with an incidence of about one case per million vaccinations.[4] As a result, Di Justo writes that "the public refused to trust a government-operated health program that killed old people and crippled young people." In total, less than 33 percent of the population had been immunized by the end of 1976. The National Influenza Immunization Program was effectively halted on December 16.
That's fine, but I'm keeping the self-destruct cancellation key on me at all times...
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In many cases, because of the overwhelming numbers, the labs are not testing for H1N1 because the treatment for it is not different from the seasonal type A. In some cases, clinics are not allowed to send more than three samples for testing each week, even though the waiting rooms are full of flu patients.
Given that, how can we know how prevelent the H1N1 flu is? How do we know it is not the regular type A?
How many people even had each disease last week? How many died from seasonal type A flu?
We are being fed a great deal of Cr*p from the CDC and I challenge them to prove their methodology for counting the cases out there now.
I have a friend who has a son who is in the hospital because of H1N1. Yes, he does have underlying conditions, but that doesn’t make it any easier. He’s only 18.
“Bring back Balloon boy!” LOL. That family is bizarro.
I’m spooked by all the stories of doctors who have to go thru this long process to get the vaccine. Everytime I see someone sneeze or cough - I’m spooked. The CDC and the media are not helping.
grrrr
My 12 year old daughter has severe asthma brought on by colds/flu. Lots of kids at her school are sick.
I’ve called the doctors a lot, and they don’t say to keep her home from school.
She’s already had her seasonal flu shot and a pneumonia shot, and I am upping her vitamin C & vitamin D intake.
I want her to have the vaccine.
“how many tens of thousands die from regular flu each year?”
Flu Season Update - Swine Flu Update
2009-2010 Flu Season
By Vincent Iannelli, M.D., About.com
Updated October 10, 2009
Flu Deaths
Each year, the flu is reported to be responsible for almost 36,000 deaths, including about 46 to 74 deaths in children. Last year (2008-09 flu season), 97 deaths in children were reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. Unfortunately, this is not unusual in a typical flu season.
There have been sixty-six influenza-associated pediatric death this season from swine flu, including twenty-nine since August 30
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/kidsandtheflu/a/0607_flu_update.htm
Hell, I just figured this was Chicago gang story......................Ya mean it’s not?????
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