BALTIMORE – It was a slow day for Maryland’s hospitals. But one Baltimore emergency room and an intensive care unit were already maxed out. And the computer monitor tracking the ER and ICU at a medical center in nearby Washington was flashing yellow and red — signaling that they, too, had run out of room. The next car crash victim would have to go elsewhere; the next heart attack patient risked losing precious minutes before getting lifesaving treatment.
As the second wave of H1N1 infections begins in the United States, scenes like this from the command center of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems have federal, state and local health authorities nationwide scrambling. Even if swine flu remains a mild infection, the pandemic could be the tipping point for an emergency medical system teetering on the edge.
“The worry is, the health-care delivery system could be overwhelmed by people who are sick or think they are sick,” said Kim Elliott of Trust for America’s Health, a nonpartisan think tank and advocacy group.
Pandemic or not, H1N1 virus is going to be a problem for emergency rooms.
Oh. Let’s whip up some more hysteria. That’ll help.
I wouldn’t classify this as “hysteria.” Planning ahead can avert disaster.
Planning is for Socialists. Real men take their guns out and shoot someone.
I don’t give a rat’s ass if she does have swine flu….I’m do’in her.
[In your dreams!
- ed.]
This will only be a problem because Americans are the stupidest humans to have ever existed on the planet. A pile of dog shit has a higher IQ than the average American.
[I wasn't aware there was a test for the IQ of dog shit. - ed.]
http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/
Numbers arent changing..
and if this was a REAL problem wouldnt the gov have PERSONS on the street corner Injecting everyone?
Its been 6 months since it started..
http://cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
By the CDC, its only 20%..infection..
This topic is a fucking waste of time and attention, please, please, step the site up a notch – eliminate the subject entirely. This is THE last time I read anything on this here or anywhere, or post a response on pig flu, which is what pigs get, not humans. All I can say for those who get sucked in to shooting up pig flu in their veins as some sort of way of protecting themselves from it, is “they are dumb sows” and deserve to be treated like pigs which the government is very good at. I’m with post #5′s comment. ROFL.
ok so what happened in the southern hemisphere’s flu season? (that would have been this past summer for us here in the northern hemisphere)
idle prying minds wanna know!
Damn, she’s hot!
“the health-care delivery system could be overwhelmed by people who are sick or THINK they are sick”
The MSM’s hysterical pumping of this topic is causing this bullshit. I hope they all die of swine flu…
She’d be hotter with non-fake boobs.
Photo: The proper etiquette is to cover her head with a paper bag.
Looks like ECA nailed it here.
Looking at the graph he put up, it’s obvious swine flu is on the out.
That is, until they start injecting everyone with something that is supposed to help.
#12 Father Tomb,
There are no such things as fake boobs.
It’s just a practice run. They’ve never attempted such a large indoctrination (brainwashing) and at the same time had to produce some actions. So this is the test run, to work out the kinks and give some money to themselves and their little buddies – honest Demoncrats – BS
Impeach President Hussein and King George Bush, then take them to court for treason and demand the full imposition for their crimes against the people of the United States. They’ve both aided Terrorist and inhibited the ability of the police and military to protect us, both are crimes of High Treason – no different than selling Nuclear Secrets to the USSR, with whom we were not actually at war with in a declared sense.
Whatever…………………….
Traaxx
Read down the CDC page to the resistance testing: 99.8% of H1N1 samples were resistant to Oseltamivir. So, if you have a stockpile of Tamiflu, now’s the time to sell it off at a profit. When it comes to H1N1, it does Bupkis, folks.
Correction to #17: that’s about the Seasonal H1N1, but they say it still works against the Pandemic H1N1. So, if you get hit in the autumn, try and find out which one it is before wasting a precious dose …
The pictured couple probably don’t want to be photographed by amateurs and the gossip rags. NOT because they’re sick with the flu, or think that everyone else there is. The guy looks more like a security man escorting a super model to the next shoot. And some boob snapped a luck shot. Or maybe he’s a movie actor, who just doesn’t like wearing regular swimwear. He prefers knee length trousers and a belt. He can’t really be wearing that to get wet in. But if he’s dragging her around as his trophy wife or hot girlfriend. Why hide their identity? Seems more like a publicity stunt. Since it makes no sense, how you look at it.
I don’t know about anyone else but I, for one, am endlessly amazed at the wealth of super-doctors and super-scientists, who have nothing better to do all day long than to hang around this blog and pontificate about H1N1.
You guys are just amazing people! Really, I mean that sincerely!
Obviously, if you are better informed about virii than real doctors and you’ve done more accurate research on this particular strain than real scientists, you must all be just about the super-smartest, most incredibly well-informed people in the world.
Thank you all! I was under the mistaken impression there’s a pandemic in progress but you’ve certainly set my mind to rest. It’s nothing but a conspiracy to poison everyone in the world and nothing bad is actually happening – except there’s a half white President.
You know, it’s too bad you weren’t around to debunk that bubonic plague thing when it happened. You could have saved a lot of lives back then.
During this world-wide non-event, perhaps I can catch a short period of well-needed rest for a change.
I knew the truth was out there. I just didn’t know it was in here.