NYT: Silly CDC Pre-emptively handles Swine Flu vaccine incoming fiasco
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Subject: NYT: Silly CDC Pre-emptively handles Swine Flu vaccine
incoming fiasco
Date: Sep 28, 2009 4:21 PM
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Wow.
I guess it's gonna be REALLY BAD if they planned this
pre-emptive attack on all the future victims. The truth is
that no one believes the CDC *or* the NIH, and no one
*should* assign to them any scientific expertise, especially
since Fauci says things like, "We don't know what Pam3Cys is:"
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
Fauci is Number 16 in the^^^ Weinstein Section:
16) Anthony Fauci
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/9/888
"Determining the structure of the trimeric form of the envelope
protein is currently a research priority and is expected to yield
additional
insights."
Yeah, we would have liked to have known what
the OspA vaccine was before it, too, was deployed.
http://www.actionlyme.org/Pam3Cys_Version15.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/PAM3CYS_IMMUNE_SUPPRESSION.htm
(You can see that the HIV gp120s are, like 3 OspAs or
Pam3Cys')
CONCLUSION: These people, the CDC and the NIH, are tards
and as such, should not be telling anyone *anything* about human
health.
BTW, "seizures" (mentioned below) is a big clue to the MMR
vaccines-and-infant-encephalitis dilemma.
Remember, what's wrong with ^^^ THOSE "vaccines" is right in the
monograph: "Subacute, non-fatal encephalitis; ... Don't worry, be
happy,
parents. You can always send your mental-reject children to duh DCF
pediatric prisons and other institutions... Duh State Cannibals need
to
be fed, too, ya know!
http://www.actionlyme.org/duh_DCF.htm
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/health/policy/28vaccine.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print
September 28, 2009
Don’t Blame Flu Shots for All Ills, Officials Say
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
As soon as swine flu vaccinations start next month, some people
getting them will drop dead of heart attacks or strokes, some children
will have seizures and some pregnant women will miscarry.
But those events will not necessarily have anything to do with the
vaccine. That poses a public relations challenge for federal
officials, who remember how sensational reports of deaths and
illnesses derailed the large-scale flu vaccine drive of 1976.
This time they are making plans to respond rapidly to such events and
to try to reassure a nervous public — and headline-hunting journalists
— that the vaccine is not responsible.
Every year, there are 1.1 million heart attacks in the United States,
795,000 strokes and 876,000 miscarriages, and 200,000 Americans have
their first seizure. Inevitably, officials say, some of these will
happen within hours or days of a flu shot.
The government “is right to expect coincident deaths, since people are
dying every day, with or without flu shots,” said Dr. Harvey V.
Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine and co-author of “The
Epidemic That Never Was,” a history of the 1976 swine flu vaccination
campaign.
Officials are particularly worried about spontaneous miscarriages,
because they are urging pregnant women to be among the first to be
vaccinated. Pregnant women are usually advised to get flu shots,
because they and their fetuses are at high risk of flu complications,
but this year the pressure is greater. Expectant mothers are normally
advised to avoid drugs, alcohol and anything else that might affect a
fetus.
“There are about 2,400 miscarriages a day in the U.S.,” said Dr. Jay
C. Butler, chief of the swine flu vaccine task force at the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “You’ll see things that
would have happened anyway. But the vaccine doesn’t cause
miscarriages. It also doesn’t cause auto accidents, but they happen.”
In the opening days of the 1976 vaccination campaign, which eventually
vaccinated 45 million Americans, three elderly Pittsburgh residents
died soon after receiving their shots at the same clinic. Though
scientists believe it was just a freakish coincidence, some news
reports suggested the vaccine had killed them.
“Press frenzy was so intense it drew a televised rebuke from Walter
Cronkite for sensationalizing coincidental happenings,” Dr. David J.
Sencer, who was then the director of the C.D.C., wrote in 2006
reflections on the vaccination campaign.
Two months later, reports emerged of vaccine recipients suffering from
Guillain-Barré syndrome, in which the body’s immune system attacks the
nerves, leading to temporary or permanent paralysis and, in a few
cases, death. That effectively ended the campaign, as officials
suspended it to investigate. Experts still disagree over whether the
vaccine caused cases to increase that year, and the C.D.C. will be on
high alert for reports of it this year.
Guillain-Barré’s cause is unknown, though different studies have
suggested it more often affects people who have had a flu shot, the
flu itself, some bacterial infections — or even, according to Dr.
Sencer’s paper, people who have been struck by lightning.
In any case, after the suspension, there was no reason to restart
because the predicted swine flu epidemic never emerged.
That, experts emphasize, is the great difference between 1976 and
2009. The earlier virus apparently burned out the previous winter
inside Fort Dix, N.J., before any vaccine was even made, while this
pandemic H1N1 virus has already infected millions and, unchecked, will
probably reach over two billion, according to the World Health
Organization.
In 1976, getting flu shots into 45 million Americans was
unprecedented. Now about 100 million get annual shots, and the
government has ordered twice that many doses of swine flu vaccine.
Other changes since 1976 worry officials. The 24-hour cycle of news on
television and the Internet did not then exist; public health
officials now must be ready to respond to rumors instantly. In 1976,
the C.D.C. did not hold news conferences, and it took it five days to
respond to the Pittsburgh deaths, Dr. Fineberg said.
“Back then, it was a neat thing to have a fax machine and get out four
pages a minute,” said Joe Quimby, a press officer for the disease
centers. “Now, communications have to be multimodal. Turning on the
three broadcast news outlets is not going to reach everybody any
more.”
The agency now has a “war room” in its Atlanta headquarters and, since
the pandemic began in April, has held news conferences, sometimes even
daily, at which reporters from around the world ask questions by
phone. They can be seen live on the agency’s Web site, and it has
another Web site, flu.gov, devoted to the pandemic, as well as a
constantly updated Facebook page and Twitter feed.
Complicating the challenge for officials, some experts argue, is that
health news coverage has suffered since 1976.
“I’ve seen the rise and fall of experienced medical reporters,” said
Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious
Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “I can’t
tell you how many reporters have come to me since last spring who
don’t really know what flu is.”
Also, antivaccine activists are far more powerful now. Thirty-three
years ago, vaccines were enthusiastically welcomed; many parents or
grandparents still remembered children dead of smallpox, measles or
polio. The minority opposing them were often followers of natural
healing or traditional chiropractic beliefs.
In 1976, autism was not on the public’s mind, and the problem was
still attributed to indifferent mothering. Vietnam veterans with
chronic illnesses usually blamed Agent Orange, a defoliant.
Today, many parents blame vaccines for their children’s autism and
some ill Gulf War veterans blame their anthrax shots.
Some antivaccine groups are raising fears of thimerosal, a
preservative used in some brands of flu vaccine. Others issue dire
warnings about squalene, an immune booster used in military vaccines
and in some European flu vaccines but not in any American ones.
And, in the rancor over health insurance reform, unfounded rumors are
spreading that the Obama administration will make swine flu shots
mandatory. Administration officials have emphatically denied that. But
a recent decision by New York State to make them mandatory for all
hospital employees has reinvigorated those rumors on the Internet.
To defend itself, Dr. Butler said, the C.D.C, has compiled data on how
many problems like heart attacks, strokes, miscarriages, seizures and
sudden infant deaths normally occur. And it has broken those figures
down for various high-priority vaccine groups, like pregnant women or
children with asthma. When vaccinations begin, it plans to gather
reports from vaccine providers, hospitals and doctors, looking for
signs of adverse events, so it can detect problems before rumors grow.
“Then we’ll try to verify the signal, see if it’s real,” Dr. Butler
said. “Then we’ll try to see if it’s associated with the vaccine. If
it is, we’ll say so. The process will be as transparent as we can make
it.”
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci