New UK Swine Flu Report Evades £1.24 Billion Squandered Issue

Incompetent Swine Flu Drug Dealers Flying Pigs Club, from left:
Andrew Burnham MP - Previously Health Secretary of State, now challenging for the Labour Party leadership
Fear Marketeer Sir Liam Donaldson - Chief Medical Officer (soon to be ex)
Professor David Salisbury, tagged 'Vaccines Basil' - UK Government Vaccines Director
Gillian Merron, Ex-MP - Previously Parliamentary vaccines propagandist, fired by the voters at the General Election

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More than £1.2billion of UK taxpayers’ money was spent on the swine flu pandemic that never materialised, a report has found. One critic described ministers’ reaction to the so-called pandemic as a ‘hugely expensive farce’. Details of the scale of the cost emerge as the NHS is being forced to make drastic cuts, with hundreds of doctors and nurses’ posts at risk. Yesterday’s review into the swine flu response, chaired by Dame Deirdre Hine, a former chief medical officer for Wales, revealed that the Government was locked in a contract with GlaxoSmithKline. The report showed £1.24billion was spent preparing for the pandemic. Critics said officials had squandered vast sums of money by overreacting to ‘scaremongering’. Labour MP Paul Flynn, who investigated the handling of the outbreak for the Council of Europe, said: ‘The effects of swine flu were wildly exaggerated. Scaremongering on this s ort of scale must never happen again.’  He also said the report had ‘evaded the issue’ adding: ‘It does not go into the huge disruption to the Health Service and the impact on patients.’

Sophie Borland, Daily Mail

Millions Of Taxpayer Funded Swine Flu Vaccines To Be Burned

ATLANTA — About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash. The outdated vaccine, some of which expired Wednesday, will be incinerated. About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If all that vaccine expires, more than 43 percent of the supply for the U.S. public will have gone to waste. About 162 million doses were meant for the general public. Another 36 million included doses for the military and other countries. But demand never took off, for several reasons. Government officials have known for months that they were looking at a huge surplus. According to an Associated Press calculation based on federal purchasing information, the dollar value of the 40 million expired doses is about $261 million. The government didn't release an official figure, but H all said the AP estimate was approximately correct.

Mike Stobbe, Associated Press