With nearly 500 US deaths from swine flu, the top American health official on Sunday urged educators and parents to take measures to prevent and address the A(H1N1) virus.
“Hopefully, we will engage schools as good vaccination partners. We anticipate having school-based vaccination clinics as soon as they’re available and getting kids the protection that they need.”
US news reports this month said the US government was planning for a worst-case scenario in which up to 40 percent of the American workforce could be affected by swine flu — either directly contracting the virus or having to stay home to look after an affected relative.
1976 – 1 death; 500 cases of Guillain-Barre and 25 confirmed deaths
2009 – 1,462 deaths; just do the math
OMG stop the presses! 40% of American workers will get flu!
What a jaw-dropper!
I thought the #1 Health Care Official was the Surgeon General, the black woman who is nearly obese. You know, “Chubby”.
At this point the USA has exactly twice as many deaths from the swine flu as those dirty impoverished Mexicans south of our border. I guess that says a whole lot about the true quality of our ‘best in the world’ healthcare.
This one could still hit hard… stock up on the basics before the panic buying hits. High carb canned foods, bleach, etc. Just don’t tell anyone that you have the stuff. And oh yeah, garlic, lots of garlic, proven many times over to help prevent viruses from taking hold (aside from keeping away vampires).
But seriously… why is it that the USA has now had twice as many deaths as Mexico, where the whole thing started?
#3 Uh… Have you heard about “illegal immigrants”? There are damn near as many Mexicans here as in fucking Mexico.
#4 Faxon –
So you don’t think that it could be that our medical system is actually a failure except for the privileged. This has nothing to do with the lower third economic segment of the US population will wait as long as possible before seeing a doctor, because of expense, lack of insurance, inability to take time off to go to doctors ‘office hours’. You don’t think that being ranked #37 by the World Health Organization in health care has anything to do with it.
#5 The lowest income class gets medicad.
The number of Americans that don’t have insurance, can’t afford insurance, and don’t qualifiy for assistance is I’m told about five million excluding the illegals which Obama always includes.
“1976 – 1 death; 500 cases of Guillain-Barre”
“2009 – 1,462 deaths; just do the math”
It took decades for us the learn the truth about those 1976 cases. I heard back then that only 8 elderly people developed Guillain Barre. And no deaths were attributed to the vaccine. So I suspect that in about 20 years we’ll be hearing how these 2009 stats were faked or inflated. And the 1462 death were just random causes, but attributed to H1N1, to help sell the vaccine. Hospitals probably get a little tax break, if they claim deaths by Swine Flu.
“1976 – 1 death; 500 cases of Guillain-Barre”
“2009 – 1,462 deaths; just do the math”
Bullshit, authorities are attributing deaths completely unrelated to the swine flu to this flu. It’s unadulterated propaganda.
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A censored WGBH public television (Boston) documentary — produced public health expert Dr. Leonard Horowitz — contains an interview with leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who explains how Merck vaccines have spread AIDS, leukemia and other deadly plagues worldwide. The documentary provides evidence that Merck vaccines have long contained cancer viruses (including SV40 or Simian vacuolating virus 40).
http://liveleak.com/view?i=327_1195303011
#6
A person very close to me is 58 years old, earns in the $40,000 range, and can not get insurance because of a previous ‘scare’ with breast cancer. Where does she, and another 40 million AMERICANS that are not covered by any medical coverage fit in your equation? If this woman was able to spend 25% of her income on insurance, she would… but they want even more.
BTW, the number of uninsured comes from the census bureau, AFTER accounting for undocumented aliens.
The average cost for insurance, as provided by an employer, for a healthy family family of 4, is $12,700 per year. For a self-employed, non-group member with a family, the cost goes up to $22,000.
In the mean time, insurance companies last year made record profits. United Health Group generated earnings from operations of $5.3 billion.
So here we have the MOST expensive health system in the world, costing close to $3 Trillion per year, yet the country places 37th in quality of medical care. $450 billion extra is spent just on excess paperwork. Even morons like Palin and her fans should be able to see the problem in that fact.
Yay USA, number one! We win! Oh… we came 37th in the race??? Yay we win anyway… we spent the most! Winners! Yay!
so less than 1500 deaths over the world with over 6 billion people?
yea, sounds like a horrible epidemic!