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Originally posted by nightmarehalo
Military Poised to Help FEMA Battle Swine Flu Outbreak
Second line.
Vaccine orders are submitted by Project Area health departments on behalf of vaccine providers. These orders are transmitted to CDC and are processed and forwarded to CDC’s contractor for centralized distribution.
"There is not a shortage," said Director of Public Health and Health Officer Dr. Jonathan Fielding. "There will be plenty of vaccine for anyone who wants to get immunized."
Originally posted by nightmarehalo
My point is that FEMA decides when the vaccines get delivered not some hospital representative that will tell FEMA to drop them off in an alley behind a Muslim church.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc. are among several large New York City employers that got doses of the H1N1 vaccine....
Originally posted by Regenmacher
Originally posted by nightmarehalo
My point is that FEMA decides when the vaccines get delivered not some hospital representative that will tell FEMA to drop them off in an alley behind a Muslim church.
Wrong, your point is completely false to suggest FEMA controls distribution, when it's the CDC is who controls allocation and distribution of H1n1 vaccines in the US.
Many patients awaiting the vaccine are angry over CDC distribution decisions ABC
For that matter, the free market still thumbs their nose at all bureaucratic horse puckey:
Uproar as Firms Get Swine-Flu Vaccine WSJ
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc. are among several large New York City employers that got doses of the H1N1 vaccine....
If an institution wants the vaccine, money talks or they don't want it bad enough.
Originally posted by nightmarehalo
But they still all answer to FEMA in the same way that the police answer to the secret service.
Originally posted by ecoparity
People are claiming the vaccines are locked up in warehouses while every medical professional and news media reporter in the World goes along with it. Where is the proof of this?
Originally posted by ecoparity
That lady made a stupid comment that CFR idiots laughed at. .
Dr. Richard Schabas, a former chief medical officer for Ontario, said last week that H1N1 will be a "distant memory" by Christmas and there will be no value in immunizing healthy people.
Originally posted by ecoparity
Tymoshenko is following the WHO line of BS but to be fair the worst of the outbreak is probably coming to an end. Other bad outbreaks (waves) lasted around 1-2 weeks before the virus burned itself out.
It's all about how quickly people take things seriously, wear masks, wash hands and isolate away from each other. The virus will run out of hosts to jump to and even with fewer hosts the viral load decreases so the severity of the infections decreases with it.
The severe part of the outbreak is moving into the neighboring countries now but the politicians in those places are doing a better job of keeping panic under control (for the most part). Russia has a few drugs of it's own other than Tamiflu which have proven effective as well as methods for ventilation which involve sending O2 directly into the bloodstream.
I recall an article a while back about Russia developing alternatives to antibiotics but I can't remember the name for them. The science is being looked at again with all the resistant bugs floating around. It's ironic but the people of Russia may come out of their pandemic wave in better shape than expected.
Besides swine influenza, AN3N2, AN2N2 and group B have been found in the territory of Ukraine. In particular, at present at least 8 different viruses are circulating in the territory of Bukovyna. Such conclusions are made by experts of regional sanitary epidemiological stations following the results of almost 6,000 studies on the identification of acute respiratory viral infections, said the chief state sanitary doctor of the Chernivtsi Region Oleksandr Svitlichny on November 11 at the briefing.
"When the active epidemic has begun, population does not need mass vaccination, and it is absolutely correct opinion, and we support it," - she said and added that the vaccination of risk groups with a purpose to have to individual protection or closed groups is necessary, Ukrainian News reported.
As a reminder, experts believe vaccination against influenza A (H1N1) is possible during the epidemic.
After infecting the vaccinated and unvaccinated mice with the 1934 influenza strain, the scientists isolated virus from the lungs of both sets of mice and passed on these viruses to a new set of mice. They did this nine times. After the final passage, the researchers sequenced the gene encoding the virus hemagglutinin protein.
Sequencing revealed that the unvaccinated mice—which lacked vaccine-induced antibodies—had no mutated influenza viruses in their lungs. In contrast, the hemagglutinin gene in virus isolated from vaccinated mice had mutated in a way that increased the ability of the virus to adhere to the receptors it uses to enter lung cells.
Next, the researchers infected a new set of unvaccinated mice with the high-affinity mutant virus strain that had emerged in the first series of experiments. In the absence of antibody pressure, the virus reverted to a low-affinity form and was once again able to easily infect cells and spread.