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.
We’re all gone to die head for the hills.
Google “swine flu adjuvant squalene” for some disturbing information. I haven’t seen it debunked yet. Apparently some vaccines containing squalene given to soldiers in the first Gulf War are provoking autoimmune diseases like Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I have a friend whose brother was in the first Gulf War who now has MS. Apparently this squalene is used by the body naturally, but when it’s injected as part of this vaccine, the body starts treating it as a foreign substance when it shouldn’t.
Here’s an article.
It’s disturbing… they’re making lots of vaccine but they’re adding these adjuvants that boost the effect so they can use less of the actual vaccine.
I’m worried that we’re being stampeded into taking this hastily concocted vaccine, for what? Is the H1N1 virus really so much more deadly than other strains?
I’m not going to take the vaccine, nor give it to my daughter.
Quote from the above article:
Less than 100 children in the U.S. die each year from seasonal flu viruses.[iv] If we use Australia’s math, a very rough estimate would be another 100 children could potentially die of swine flu in the United States in the coming year.
If children are the first target group in the U.S. per Sebelius, that means we’re about to inject around 75 million children with a fast tracked vaccine containing novel adjuvants, including dangerous squalene, to prevent perhaps 100 deaths.
I’m not overlooking the tragedy of the loss of even one child to an illness like the H1N1 flu virus. But there can be no argument that unnecessary mass injection of millions of children with a vaccine containing an adjuvant known to cause a host of debilitating autoimmune diseases is a reckless, dangerous plan.
I just love medical experts who aren’t. They’re so good for my business…
>> Weary Reaper said,
>> I just love medical experts who aren’t. They’re so good for my business…
I can get a flu shot at my local grocery store. I’d certainly trust my dentist to do it right.
If that vaccine is from Baxter, those Mass. citizens are probably going to die. That company already tried to murder millions of people in Germany & Slovakia by putting live avian flu virus in a flu vaccine. The fact that they’re still in business tells you they are probably linked to the CIA and Israel.
Being alive in 1957, and never getting the yearly flu, I am not worried about the flu. However, I aspire to become a carrier of, spreading it all over San Francisco.
#5 Greg Allen
I was referring to the morons who are afraid of just about everything these days, not dentists giving shots.
The more stupid people who think pandemics are political plots, the better my business.
It’s an IM injection. You swab, penetrate and aspirate. If you aspirate blood, slightly change the depth of the needle. The procedure can be taught in a hour. The deltoid is the muscle of choice. I can teach threading peripheral IV’s in a few hours. My point is the technique is easy to learn.
#2 & 3 Phydeau,
Your link comes from an anti immunization idiot.
Immunizations have saved countless children and adults from the ravages of measles, chicken pox, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, tetanus, and small pox.
That immunizations routinely cause other problems such as autism have been debunked.
If you don’t want to be immunized then fine, but don’t harm your child by denying her the opportunity.
Har! Marathon Man.
@#10
“Immunizations have saved countless children and adults from the ravages of measles, chicken pox, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, tetanus, and small pox.” Yes. But that does not allow Govt. to rush it without proper scientific examination of the vaccine before it is dumped on the general population. Nor does that allow Govt. to take personal freedoms of people and parents away when the decision about vaccination is concerned.
“If you don’t want to be immunized then fine, but don’t harm your child by denying her the opportunity” It is and always should be parents choice and risk management to decide whether vaccination or lack of it is the greater risk for his/her child. Govt. should provide vaccinations and education about it. Not make decisions for the children instead of their own parents. If not, we are sliding into Orwellian society.
“That immunizations routinely cause other problems such as autism have been debunked.” Question I posed to autism link “debunkers” at the proper scientific conference: check autism frequencies in countries widely covered and widely not covered by standard Western vaccination practices. Explain factor of 10000 higher risk in vaccinated areas. I am open minded, but the simplest answer is obvious.
Mr. Fusion, I know a Gulf War veteran who has MS. Gulf War Syndrome exists. I am not speaking of vaccines in general. I am speaking of one component, squalene, that has been associated with Gulf War Syndrome and with autoimmune diseases in lab animals. And now it’s apparently in tens of millions of H1N1 vaccines that have been hastily manufactured, added to boost the effectiveness so they don’t have to put as much of the vaccine into each dose.
The guy may be an anti-immunization idiot, but in this case he might be onto something. Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while (old TX saying).
And one thing I don’t understand… how much more dangerous is swine flu than other strains? Has anyone come out with a cost-benefit analysis? How many more people are expected to die from swine flu? Is it worth the risk to give 75 million children a vaccine that may cause autoimmune disease down the road?
If anyone has any links to anyone who has addressed this issue, I’d love to see them.
I’m on the fence about taking the vaccine for the pro’s and con’s expressed herein.
I sure wish I could slice the evidence to remove the scientists who naively trust the government and big Pharma to act as they have a duty to do AND to remove the idiots who confuse analysis with an irresponsible notion of personal freedom.
Make me realize just how powerful “knowledge” really is. Vaccines in general are a good thing that should be compulsory for all people. That is TRUE!! Not known: is this particular vaccine a net benefit or not?
Yes, knowledge is power.
#12, dusan,
check autism frequencies in countries widely covered and widely not covered by standard Western vaccination practices. Explain factor of 10000 higher risk in vaccinated areas. I am open minded, but the simplest answer is obvious.
What factor of 10000? This is just more of the FUD the right wing comes out with. Make the shit up and then demand the opponents refute it.
The science is clear, immunizations do not cause autism. Now you refute that. With science.
They suggest seniors give this thing a pass. I don’t trust that statement but I don’t feel like being a lab rat either. The risks from the disease may be lower.
I wouldn’t dream of telling a parent to have a child take on or not take this thing. Government health care workers and big business have weird ideas about what is is my best interest and that of the public.
The leftist’s health control bill brings veterinarians under the same control as MD’s. I guess they will be used as MD’s for the disposable elderly.
# 9 RTaylor said, “It’s an IM injection…the technique is easy to learn.”
It’s not only easy to learn but dentists, nurses, paramedics have already been trained in the technique. Pharmacists? Probably not but they are generally a bunch of pretty smart people. I think they can learn without much difficulty. The needle isn’t very big. They aren’t going to punch into a bone and get a “core” sample. And even if it does get into the blood stream instead of a muscle, there’s no harm done. Just no immunity. (In the bloodstream, it’s cleared out of the body too fast for the immune system to react adequately.)
When I was a Boy Scout in Phoenix, they “deputized” us to help with the mass inoculations of the new oral polio vaccine. (Two drops on the sugar cube and watch them put the cube into their mouth!) So, there is precedence dating back almost 50 years for expanding the pool of vaccine administrators.
Still, I have no plans for taking the vaccine. Not because a drug dealer, sorry – a pharmacist, might give an injection but because the vaccine is being rushed into production without adequate testing when the virus itself does not appear to be very virulent. We see every death splashed on the headlines but the seasonal flu is still killing ‘em off faster and more efficiently.
#13, Phydeau,
I also know a couple of people with MS. One prays to god to thank him for making through that day and the other is one of the most beautiful women I have ever had the privilege of practicing procreation with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Sclerosis#Causes
] Vaccinations were also considered as causal factors for the disease; however, most studies show no association between MS and vaccines.[64]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Sclerosis#Non-infectious_environmental_risk_factors
I live in Massachusetts. I actually like my dentist, but there’s no way I’m getting a swine flu shot from him. He doesn’t accept Medicaid like some dentists do, so ten bucks says he won’t volunteer to administer shots for this program, anyway.