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Title: CDC Propaganda: Swine flu shot: Intense tracking for side effects
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Published: Sep 27, 2009
Author: By LAURAN NEERGAARD (AP)
Post Date: 2009-09-27 12:30:21 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: CDC Garbage, NWO Propaganda, Lies about Swine Flu Shot
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Swine flu shot: Intense tracking for side effects By LAURAN NEERGAARD (AP) – 3 hours ago WASHINGTON — More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you're one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries? The government is starting an unprecedented system to track possible side effects as mass flu vaccinations begin next month. The idea is to detect any rare but real problems quickly, and explain the inevitable coincidences that are sure to cause some false alarms. "Every day, bad things happen to people. When you vaccinate a lot of people in a short period of time, some of those things are going to happen to some people by chance alone," said Dr. Daniel Salmon, a vaccine safety specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services. Health authorities hope to vaccinate well over half the population in just a few months against swine flu, which doctors call the 2009 H1N1 strain. That would be a feat. No more than 100 million Americans usually get vaccinated against regular winter flu, and never in such a short period. How many will race for the vaccine depends partly on confidence in its safety. The last mass inoculations against a different swine flu, in 1976, were marred by reports of a rare paralyzing condition, Guillain-Barre syndrome. "The recurring question is, 'How do we know it's safe?'" said Dr. Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic. Enter the intense new monitoring. On top of routine vaccine tracking, there are these government-sponsored projects: _Harvard Medical School scientists are linking large insurance databases that cover up to 50 million people with vaccination registries around the country for real-time checks of whether people see a doctor in the weeks after a flu shot and why. The huge numbers make it possible to quickly compare rates of complaints among the vaccinated and unvaccinated, said the project leader, Dr. Richard Platt, Harvard's population medicine chief. _Johns Hopkins University will direct e-mails to at least 100,000 vaccine recipients to track how they're feeling, including the smaller complaints that wouldn't prompt a doctor visit. If anything seems connected, researchers can call to follow up with detailed questions. _The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing take-home cards that tell vaccine recipients how to report any suspected side effects to the nation's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system. "We don't have any reason to expect any unusual problems with this vaccine," said Dr. Neal Halsey, director of Hopkins' Institute for Vaccine Safety, who is directing the e-mail surveillance. After all, the new H1N1 vaccine is a mere recipe change from the regular winter flu shot that's been used for decades in hundreds of millions of people without serious problems. Nor have there been any red flags in the few thousand people given test doses in studies to determine the right H1N1 dose. They've gotten the same sore arms and occasional headache or fever that's par for a winter flu shot. But because this H1N1 flu targets the young more than the old, this may be the year that unprecedented numbers of children and pregnant women are vaccinated. Then there's the glare of the Internet — where someone merely declaring on Facebook that he's sure the shot did harm could cause a wave of similar reports. Health authorities will have to tell quickly if there really do seem to be more cases of a particular health problem than usual. So the CDC is racing to compile a list of what's normal: 25,000 heart attacks every week; 14,000 to 19,000 miscarriages every week; 300 severe allergic reactions called anaphylaxis every week. Any spike would mean fast checking to see if the vaccine really seems to increase risk and by how much, so health officials could issue appropriate warnings. Very rare side effects by definition could come to light only after large-scale inoculations begin — making this the year scientists may finally learn if flu vaccine truly is linked to Guillain-Barre, an often reversible but sometimes fatal paralysis. It's believed to strike between 1 and 2 of every 100,000 people. It often occurs right after another infection, such as food poisoning or even influenza. But the vaccine concern stems from 1976, when 500 cases were reported among the 45 million people vaccinated against that year's swine flu. Scientists never could prove if the vaccine really caused the extra risk. The CDC maintains that if the regular winter flu vaccine is related, the risk is no more than a single case per million vaccinated. So the question becomes, Is the risk of disease greater than that? Mayo's Poland cites a study in Chicago that found the rate of preschoolers being hospitalized for the new H1N1 flu last spring was 2 1/2 times higher than that possible Guillain-Barre risk. However the flu season turns out, the extra vaccine tracking promises a lasting impact. "Part of what we hope is that it will teach us something about how to monitor the safety of all medical products quickly," said Harvard's Platt. On the Net: * CDC: www.cdc.gov/H1N1FLU/ Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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No, the question is, If they don't know if it's safe, why should we be their guinea pigs? ------------------------ ID Bracelets With Barcodes In Them To Track Flu Vaccinations? Vaccine checkpoint In a move that absolutely screams "big brother", the city of Boston Massachusetts has been testing out a new system that they hope will lead to the creation of a citywide registry of everyone who has had a flu vaccination. During the trial period, every "volunteer" that received a flu vaccination got an identification bracelet containing a unique barcode. The barcode contained basic information about the vaccine recipient (name, age, gender, address) and the information was entered into a patient tracking database via handheld devices similar to those used by delivery truck drivers. Further information collected during this trial program included the identity of the person that administered the vaccine, whether it was injected into the right arm or the left arm, and the time and date the vaccine was administered. One of the goals of health officials in Boston is to create a "vaccination map" that will enable them to pinpoint address by address who was received a vaccination and who has not. Talk about chilling. Will technology such as this be rolled out nationwide if the swine flu gets really bad this fall? How would you feel if authorities could instantly pull up the vaccination status of everyone in your neighborhood? And why all of this hysteria? After all, so far the swine flu has not been any more threatening than an average seasonal flu. At least that is what Dr. Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University is saying. According to Dr. Lipstich, the swine flu death rate is very similar to the death rate of the seasonal flu during an average year. So why are the authorities treating this flu with such hysteria? Do they know something that we don't? One example of how incredibly bizarre things have gotten is a story that we recently found out of Canada. Some Indian tribes in north Manitoba had requested some supplies to help battle the swine flu, but what Health Canada sent them was not what they were expecting. Do you know what Health Canada sent them? Body bags. Seriously. The Edmonton Sun reported that David Harper, who is one of the Indian leaders up there, is openly wondering if Health Canada knows something about the flu outbreak that they aren't telling them..... "Don't send us body bags, help us organize, send us medicine." This reminds us of the old bond movie where James Bond asks the villain if he expects him to talk, and the villain responds something like this..... "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die." This would actually be funny if all of this was not so real. Does Health Canada expect the Indians to die? A lot of bizarre things are going on around the U.S. and Canada right now, and the only explanation is that the authorities are expecting something really BIG to happen. But why? The swine flu so far has been trivial. What is really going on? If you have any useful tips or intel about what is going on in your community, please leave a comment and tell us what is happening. Perhaps if we all work together we can start to put the pieces of this puzzle together. 1 comment to ID Bracelets With Barcodes In Them To Track Flu Vaccinations? * jacqueline manzano my personal opinion: The rfid chip is inside the vaccine itself( the shot ), the bracelet is the diversion to trick you into belief that the chip is without you not within you. It is out right genocide….their agenda! They have been tricking us all our lives, this vaccine is the ultimate take-over of humanity…PERIOD! thebirdflupandemic.com/ar...to-track-flu-vaccinations I tend to agree.
No more threatening? It's been ninety percent LESS THREATENING than the seasonal flu. Just ask Dr.Gutka and his cameraman.
Somewhere I read they put swine flu in the regular flu shot. My daughter told me she got an email from a friend who had just gotten the regular flu shot for her baby daughter. She said she screamed like she never screamed before. I almost cried when she told me that. I shudder to think of what was in it.
Not that we're the smartest in the world here, but are people not aware of all the adverse reactions, and deaths, that come from these deadly vaccines? Do they trust their doctors and .gov propaganda more than they trust all the coroners' reports? How to get the word out???
Do they trust their doctors and .gov propaganda more than they trust all the coroners' reports? How to get the word out??? www.mercurynews.com/polit...i_13434376?nclick_check=1 Flu campaign's other goal: vaccinating against rumors By Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times Posted: 09/27/2009 06:00:10 PM PDT Updated: 09/27/2009 06:00:24 PM PDT 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 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 Butler, chief of the swine flu vaccine task force at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "You'll see things have 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 believed 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 Sencer, who was then the director of the CDC, wrote in 2006 reflections on the vaccination campaign. 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 TV and the Internet did not then exist; public health officials now must be ready to respond to rumors instantly. In 1976, the CDC did not hold news conferences, and it took it five days to respond to the Pittsburgh deaths, Fineberg said. 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 continually updated Facebook page and Twitter feed.
.gov insanity.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp...6/AR2009092601254_pf.html Swine Flu Surge Closes Schools, Tests Hospitals By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 27, 2009 In Austin, so many parents are rushing their children to the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas with swine flu symptoms that the hospital had to set up tents in the parking lot to cope with the onslaught. In Memphis, the Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center emergency room got so crowded with feverish, miserable youngsters that it had to do the same thing. And in Manning, S.C., a private school where an 11-year-old girl died shut down after the number of students who were out sick with similar symptoms reached nearly a third of the student body. "It just kind of snowballed," said Kim Jordan, a teacher at the Laurence Manning Academy, which closed Wednesday after Ashlie Pipkin died, and the number of ill students hit 287. "We had several teachers out also. That was the reason to close the school -- so everyone could just be away from one another for a few days." After months of warnings and frantic preparations, the second wave of the swine flu pandemic is starting to be felt around the country, as doctors, health clinics, hospitals and schools are reporting rapidly increasing numbers of patients experiencing flu symptoms. "H1N1 is spreading widely throughout the U.S.," said Thomas R. Frieden, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta during a briefing on Friday. At least 26 states, including Maryland and Virginia, are now reporting widespread flu activity, up from 21 a week earlier, the CDC reported. "H1N1 activity is now widespread," Frieden said. While so far most cases are mild, and the health-care system is handling the load, officials say the number of people seeking treatment for the flu is unprecedented for this time of year. Even though some parts of the Southeast that started seeing a surge of cases first now seem to be showing a decline in cases, that could be a temporary reprieve, Frieden said. And other parts of the country are likely just starting to feel the second wave. Maryland health authorities on Friday said a Baltimore-area youth with an underlying health problem had died of swine flu, the state's first such fatality involving a youth. Despite new federal guidelines aimed at keeping schools open, the pandemic has already prompted scattered school closings around the country in recent weeks, including 42 schools that closed in eight states on Friday, affecting more than 16,000 students. Many colleges and universities have been hit particularly hard, forcing some to open separate dorms for sick students. Ninety-one percent of the 267 colleges and universities being surveyed by the American College Health Association are now reporting cases. At the Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, the number of patients coming in each day shot up from about 180 to a peak of more than 400, prompting officials to erect a 2,500-square foot tent in the parking lot to handle the surge. More than 300 patients are still coming in every day. "What we initially did was try to bring in extra folks, but you soon run out of extra people and extra spaces to put people," said Barry Gilmore, the hospital's medical director for emergency services. Doctors, nurses, paramedics or other workers screen patients in the tent and decide who can safely go home. Anyone with other health problems that put them at risk, such as asthma, heart disease or kidney disease, is sent immediately to the emergency room. All patients who are sent home are contacted within 24 to 48 hours to make sure they are recovering. "We are mostly dealing with the worried well or kids who are mildly ill but not severely ill," he said. At least 14 patients, however, were admitted to the hospital and perhaps six required intensive care, he said. One teenager died. Swine flu, also known as H1N1, tends to strike more younger people than the usual seasonal flu. At least 49 children have died from complications caused by the virus so far in the United States. At the Dell Children's Medical Center, the number of patients coming in each day shot up from about 180 to more than 340, prompting the hospital to require staff to work extra shifts and erect two tents outside the emergency room to handle the overflow and keep possibly infected patients separate from others. "We are able to take care of them really rapidly without a long wait, and they don't have to be mixed in with other patients who do not have the flu," said Pat Crocker, chief of emergency medicine. "It's been highly efficient." But Crocker, noting that the hospital is already busier than it was in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, said the hospital has a third tent ready to be set up. Individual doctors' offices are also reporting a surge of patients in many parts of the country. "We're completely swamped," said Ari Brown, an Austin pediatrician whose office had to call in extra nurses to handle the volume of patients. "It's been extraordinarily busy. We have a small parking lot to begin with. People now are circulating the neighborhood to try to find a place to park and the waiting room is completely packed." Unless patients are seriously ill or have other conditions that put them at risk, Brown and other doctors say they tell parents to take their children home, give them Motrin or Tylenol for their fevers, headaches and body aches, and lots of fluids, and wait it out. Some doctors report that children tend to recover within about four days, a day or two shorter than with the typical flu. Nevertheless, "people are so worried about this," Brown said. "There's clearly a certain level of hysteria." Although no hospitals in the Washington region have yet had to activate their emergency plans, many are reporting an increase in patients, as are individual doctors. "Some of that is because of the swine flu and some of it is because of phobia about the flu," said Steven Mumbauer, a Waynesboro, Va., pediatrician. "But we definitely are seeing sicker kids and have treated more kids with pneumonia than we typically would this time of the year. There have been some days where we've been absolutely swamped." At the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, some children have gotten so sick that they have required intensive care, and that includes some children with no other health problems. "We have some very sick children," said Ina Stephens, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the hospital. "I'm concerned it's just the tip of the iceberg -- that we're just seeing the beginning of it."
That's encouraging. If the kids start dropping like flies FROM THE VACCINE, I think it might be pitchfork [or something more lethal] time.
#13. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#12)
www.dallasnews.com/shared...es/stories/D9B0CSMG2.html 6-year-Texas boy dies in Arkansas with swine flu 09/28/2009 Associated Press Authorities say a 6-year-old Texarkana, Texas, boy has died at a Little Rock hospital of swine flu. Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper says Diamauri Hobbs died at Arkansas Children's Hospital about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Camper says Hobbs had other health problems that included a compromised respiratory system. Camper says the boy tested positive for the virus that's also known as the H1N1 virus after arriving at the hospital on Sept. 18.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"The recurring question is, 'How do we know it's safe?'" said Dr. Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic.
September 19th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
#2. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, all (#1)
After all, so far the swine flu has not been any more threatening than an average seasonal flu.
#3. To: Lod (#2)
#5. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, all (#3)
#6. To: Lod, AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, all (#5)
Not that we're the smartest in the world here, but are people not aware of all the adverse reactions, and deaths, that come from these deadly vaccines?
#7. To: TwentyTwelve. all deniers here. (#6)
#10. To: Lod (#7)
.gov insanity.
#12. To: TwentyTwelve (#10)
Unless patients are seriously ill or have other conditions that put them at risk, Brown and other doctors say they tell parents to take their children home, give them Motrin or Tylenol for their fevers, headaches and body aches, and lots of fluids, and wait it out. Some doctors report that children tend to recover within about four days, a day or two shorter than with the typical flu.
Replies to Comment # 12. Unless patients are seriously ill or have other conditions that put them at risk
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