Massachusetts health authorities took the unprecedented step yesterday of deputizing dentists, paramedics, and pharmacists to help administer vaccines against both the seasonal flu and the novel swine strain expected to make a return visit in the fall.
In another emergency measure, regulators directed hospitals and clinics to provide vaccine to all their workers and some volunteers, a move designed to keep the medical workforce robust and prevent doctors and nurses from making their patients sick.
The actions illustrated the intensifying sense of urgency as health authorities, hospital administrators, and clinic executives across the nation confront the prospect of providing hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine against not one but two deadly types of flu in the same season.
“It’s a huge burden of work; there’s no doubt about that,’’ said Dr. Jay Butler, director of the swine flu vaccine task force at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In Massachusetts, disease specialists are expecting to provide up to 9 million flu inoculations within the next few months, three times as many as last flu season, because of the need to give two doses of swine flu vaccine.
In Boston, the city health agency plans to offer shots during the day, night, and weekend. There is a chance that retired health workers will be pressed into service to provide vaccinations to adults and children, with many patients needing three visits for all their inoculations.
Wow!! their must always be some government idiot or individual sticking up for ignorance in every site. I have spent 9 years studying many different areas since I battled cancer at 32 years of age beginning in 1999. I stumbled across a doctors conference, its notes, its doctors arguments about our water system, our shots for children especially under the age of 3 and without any doubt, this individuals for obvious reasons I can’t give his name states without a doubt, they have the data, the science and reports that have gone to the Gov., etc.. about children and autism. So even if your a doctor making your claim about debunking, their is not debunking facts from more than 200 doctors whom are not only afraid for their license but afraid from big pharma. wake up you idiot and stop trying convince people to buy into cancer and other crap!!
This new strain of H1N1 swine influenza appears to cause mild disease in most who get it, but those who are experienced in epidemiology and public health are scared shitless by it. When they think about it, they tend to turn pale and have to sit down for a couple of minutes.
The H1N1 “Spanish” influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 is estimated to have killed twenty-five to fifty million people over those eighteen months, more than had died in all of WWI, and nearly as many as died in all of WWII. It tended to kill the young, vigorous and healthy disproportionately, after just a very few days of agony. There were stories of soldiers, strapping strong-as-an-ox farm boys who were fine at muster one morning and dead by the next.
Once an influenza virus particle enters a cell, its protein coat dissolves, releasing its RNA or DNA strands, which hijack the cell’s machinery to make more copies of its pieces of RNA or DNA and the associated proteins. If a cell is infected by more than one strain, those parts can mingle and mix and you can get a novel strain, a hybrid. This process is unpredictable as are the properties of any such hybrid produced. It is entirely possible that a superbug could arise that would cause devastation like that seen in Stephen King’s “The Stand.”
The more people who become infected, the greater the odds something like that will happen.
This is why public health professionals push vaccines so hard.
#21, Anthony,
I stumbled across a doctors conference, its notes, its doctors arguments about our water system, our shots for children especially under the age of 3 and without any doubt, this individuals for obvious reasons I can’t give his name states without a doubt, they have the data, the science and reports that have gone to the Gov., etc.. about children and autism.
People who post accusations without foundations are more likely to be effen stupider than the average moran. There is not only more anecdotal evidence of that, there are studies bearing it out.
Desperate people have an excuse for doing desperate things. Gullible people just don’t know better.
#19 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome#Anthrax_vaccine
I’m not saying it’s iron-clad evidence, but if we’re thinking of injecting tens of millions of people with a vaccine containing this substance, we should be absolutely certain the cure isn’t worse than the disease.
#24, Phydeau,
http://tinyurl.com/pbae34
I understand your concern. Fortunately though, squalene has been thoroughly reviewed and continues to be reviewed. The FDA just doesn’t succumb to pressure and knowingly allow dangerous drugs on the market.
As with anything we put in our bodies, there are often some who react differently to it than do the majority. Even if 1 person in 1,000,000 has serious complications from squalene, that is far less than the 1,000 in 1,000,000 that will have serious complications from the influenza. People who react that they are that 1 in a million are the same who blow their entire pay on lottery tickets.
@Mr. Fusion
The FDA just doesn’t succumb to pressure and knowingly allow dangerous drugs on the market.
Really? How about Viox.
#26, Improbus,
What about Vioxx? Obviously you didn’t read the article you posted or my comment.
My comment, “knowingly allow
the article,
So they aren’t evil just incompetent?
#28,
I would have said “Lied to”.
The FDA doesn’t have the resources to independently investigate every new drug, cosmetic, pesticide, etc. They rely almost entirely on industry’s studies to allow new products in the market.
Not a perfect solution but better than nothing OR expensively repeating all already conducted studies.
They rely almost entirely on industry’s studies to allow new products in the market.
There sir, you put your finger on the problem. We spend 700 billion on the military but we can’t afford to regulate the pharma industry. That is just wrong.
#30,
Uuhh, good point. My only (quick) response is you can’t stop a tank with aspirin or shoot down a bomber with room freshener.
But I get your point.