Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

[Sapiens]

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Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

By PHILIP ELLIOTT (AP) – 14 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

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On April 26, the administration declared swine flu a public health emergency, allowing the shipment of roughly 12 million doses of flu-fighting medications from a federal stockpile to states in case they eventually needed them. At the time, there were 20 confirmed cases in the U.S. of people recovering easily. There was no vaccine against swine flu, but the CDC had taken the initial step necessary for producing one.

"As a nation, we have prepared at all levels of government, and as individuals and communities, taking unprecedented steps to counter the emerging pandemic," Obama wrote in Saturday's declaration.

He said the pandemic keeps evolving, the rates of illness are rising rapidly in many areas and there's a potential "to overburden health care resources."

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God help you all.

[Sapiens]

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Companies reap the swine flu windfall
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-S...59M3TZ20091023

Companies reap the swine flu windfall
Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:43pm EDT

By Julie Steenhuysen - Analysis

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Healthcare companies are reaping the benefits of a global swine flu pandemic, brightening what might otherwise have been a dismal third quarter and bringing new focus on the market for vaccines.

Large European pharmaceutical companies are reporting windfall sales from flu drugs and H1N1 vaccines.

Small biotechs are winning fresh attention from investors and governments looking for quick, less expensive ways of making flu vaccines to protect their populations. And diagnostic companies have been growing revenues as doctors order more flu tests.

"Pretty much everyone who does something in influenza in has gained from it," said Hedwig Kresse, an infectious diseases analyst at Datamonitor in London.

"From a sales perspective, the big players certainly will see a very significant windfall of this pandemic this year," Kresse said in a telephone interview.

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[D-Mack]

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Army first in line to get cutting-edge swine flu shot

Published: 12 Oct 09 15:00 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091012-22523.html
The German army has ordered a stock of special swine flu vaccine that does not contain controversial additives that will be given to the general public, the Defence Ministry confirmed on Monday.

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091012-22523.html

Here in Germany the army and politicians will be getting the stuff without additives, while the peasants are left with the other stuff.


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[goadam1]

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Companies reap the swine flu windfall
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-S...59M3TZ20091023

so what. If we invested in new infrastructure, then ibm, ge, alcoa, haliburton and others would benefit. Someone makes the stuff.

Meanwhile, I'll be looking for vaccine without mercury for my kids.

[Master Shake]

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

- H.L. Mencken

[Chomsky]

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so what. If we invested in new infrastructure, then ibm, ge, alcoa, haliburton and others would benefit. Someone makes the stuff.

Meanwhile, I'll be looking for vaccine without mercury for my kids.

The CDC had mercury (thimerosal) eliminated from vaccines in 2001. Some vaccine stocks from before the measure was passed are still extant, so insist that your pediatrician use newer, non-thimerosal vaccines.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/updates/thimerosal.htm

[audrey_girl]

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fyi:

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[goadam1]

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The CDC had mercury (thimerosal) eliminated from vaccines in 2001. Some vaccine stocks from before the measure was passed are still extant, so insist that your pediatrician use newer, non-thimerosal vaccines.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/updates/thimerosal.htm

I do. I didn't know it was out of the new vaccines. Thanks

Now I can get back to the conspiracy to use the vaccine to make the masses sterile.

Best internet rumor. It would make a good Bond movie. Bond and Obama fisticuffs in the lincoln memorial.

Following the recommendation of his science advisor, John
Holdren, President Obama has ordered that the H1N1 Swine Flu
vaccine contain a reproductive sterilizing agent, as part of a
plan to depopulate the United States and other countries in an
attempt to protect the environment.

This is why the media has been reporting that young people are
at higher risk for H1N1, and why they are encouraging all
children be vaccinated as soon as the vaccine becomes available
next month.

John Holdren has already suggested dosing the water supply with
such a sterilizing agent, but no suitable compound has been
found that would effectively sterilize humans without
side-effects, and without harming other animals. Such problems
could be avoided by administering the drug directly, such as by
injecting it along with a routine vaccination.

[goadam1]

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fyi:

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You know, they make "infonews" like that because American is a Nation of idiots.

Wait, help me... I went to public school. Do I capitalize nation or not?

[Chomsky]

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Now I can get back to the conspiracy to use the vaccine to make the masses sterile.

But but -- but who would they tax in the future if the masses stopped reproducing?

[goadam1]

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But but -- but who would they tax in the future if the masses stopped reproducing?

Tax the robots.

[leegs]

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

- H.L. Mencken

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

[hayfield]

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Meanwhile, I'll be looking for vaccine without mercury for my kids.

I wish I could locate the research article, but I recall that absorption of mercury through Thimerosal orders of magnitude lower than the usual environmental form of mercury. Virtually all of the Thimerosal is eliminated in the "usual" way.

On the other hand, I didn't allow doctors to pump up my kids with immunizations until legally required at age 5 to enter school.

For H1N1, I've read the nasal delivery form is preservative free...

[sn1p3r]

Re: Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

The CDC had mercury (thimerosal) eliminated from vaccines in 2001. Some vaccine stocks from before the measure was passed are still extant, so insist that your pediatrician use newer, non-thimerosal vaccines.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/updates/thimerosal.htm

I thought flu vaccines were given immunity from this ban? yup found it...

from the above link:

Since 2001, with the exception of some influenza (flu) vaccines, thimerosal is not used as a preservative in routinely recommended childhood vaccines.

[Master Shake]

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My neighbors have three girls, 11 yo twins and a 9 yo. All had H1N1 the week before last. 2-3 days in bed, nowhere near as severe as seasonal flu. Big Whoop.