As I have questioned before, one really has to wonder why the US Government
and health officials are sending out such mixed signals regarding the swine
flu. Some say that the symptoms are not even as bad as the annual flu, while
others insist that for certain age groups, it is a lot worse, and can even
be fatal.

The last I read, there have been some six hundred swine flu related deaths
in the US since April. Millions of people die in the USA every single year
from the annual flu and other illnesses, and millions more die from other
causes. This swine flu is minimal by comparison, so why is there so much
hype surrounding it? What is really going on here?

Who stands to profit from all of this? The pharmaceutical conglomerates,
obviously. But is it possible that this whole swine flu drive is just a test
run to prepare folks for something else, something worse, something more
diabolical in the future? Is it possibly a test to see how easy it will be
to induce people to receive the Mark of the Beast when that day arrives?

Time will tell.

Here's an article from the New York Times.


Where to Get a Flu Shot Is Big Worry of Season

By SUSAN SAULNY - NYT

October 11, 2009


CHICAGO -- In Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio, health care and emergency medical
service workers have been given priority for swine flu immunization. Here in
Illinois, and in parts of California and Indiana, young children and their
families are first in line.

The nasal spray vaccine for swine flu was administered on Friday at a clinic
in Silver Spring, Md.

And across the country, state and local health hot lines are jammed and
message boards are lighting up with one question: When can I get my
vaccination?

As a small fraction -- some 2.4 million doses -- of the nasal spray version
of the new swine flu vaccine began arriving last week at local health
departments, plans for limited distribution were being formulated on the fly
or dusted off from earlier in the decade, when fears of an avian flu
pandemic sparked a rush of emergency preparedness.

"We are getting our fair share, but I think everybody feels they're not
getting it fast enough," Lynn Corliss, a public health nurse in Siskiyou
County, Calif., said of the vaccine.

In Monroe County, Ind., health officials said their biggest problem was not
having enough staff to administer the vaccine. At schools, they are sending
notices home with children to ask for parent volunteers.

"It's going as well as could be expected," said Penny Caudill, the
administrator of the Monroe County Health Department. "It's a huge
undertaking. It's so new, and everything you do is a bit of trial and
error."

In large part, chaos seems to have been averted, at least initially. Many
people seem to be more eager to receive the injectable form of the vaccine,
which is not yet available. And the nasal spray, called FluMist, has some
limits on who may use it. It is not recommended for infants, the elderly or
pregnant women.

Still, health officials were struggling to communicate that information to
the public and make the general population aware that the first doses were
not being widely distributed. So for most people, there was nothing to do
but wait.

"The public has legitimate questions," said Jim McVay, director of public
health promotion and chronic disease at the Alabama Department of Public
Health. "They call us. They call the doctor. They say, 'I saw it on the
news. It's available. Why don't you have it?' We're trying to explain that
yes, we will have ample supply, and yes, we'd like to have it now. But there
is a problem of having to ship out the largest outreach of immunization in
our nation's history in the shortest time period."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has embarked on an extensive
immunization drive, and, by later in the flu season, there will be enough
vaccine for the general population. But, to date, the 50 states have
received only part of the available stock based on their populations. At the
moment, demand is far outstripping supply -- and patience.

State health departments were, for the most part, distributing FluMist to
counties in proportions based on their population sizes. Counties were
turning the vaccine over to population centers, schools and hospitals as
requests came in, and according to recommendations from the C.D.C.

In Iowa, the state and county health departments are using plans developed
in 2003 after the emergence of the bird flu in Asia.

"This is something we've been thinking about for years, since the H5N1 avian
flu: what would it really take if we had to move at the level of hundreds of
thousand of doses as opposed to tens of thousands?" said Rick Kozin, program
manager at the Polk County Health Department. "The plan is a product of a
lot of partnership building that's taken place over the last several years."

The thinking was much the same in Ohio.

"We were fully aware that there were three pandemics in the 20th century,"
said Kristopher Weiss, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Health, which
is relying on guidelines developed around avian flu fears. Of the need to
put an emergency plan in place, he said, officials knew it was "only a
matter of time."

Ohio received 61,500 doses of the vaccine on Thursday, and more than 100
local health departments began receiving allotments on Friday. Health care
workers took priority.

Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, signed an executive order last week to
allow 17,000 emergency medical technicians to provide the vaccine if needed.
The State Health Department posts updates about the vaccine on its Web site
and has set up a toll-free number for Ohioans with questions about the H1N1
virus.

"I think it's going relatively well," Mr. Strickland said.

In Arkansas, officials have been aided by a coincidence: last year the
legislature granted $2.9 million for vaccinating students against the
seasonal flu. Ed Barham, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Health,
said that plan created an infrastructure on which the department could
piggyback and distribute swine flu vaccines at the same time.

Vaccinations are scheduled to start on Wednesday in Little Rock. In the
meantime, Arkansas health officials will give the vaccine to the neediest
cases: health workers, children and those with other health conditions.

"It's very much shooting at a moving target," Mr. Barham said.

In southwest Utah, the area's Public Health Department divided its allotment
of the swine flu vaccine among the five county hospitals, based on the size
of the medical center and its community.

Even though the department had distribution plans in place, it has had to be
nimble.

"Probably about three weeks ago we heard that our first batches would be
nasal spray, and we were expecting injections," said David Heaton, public
information officer for the Southwest Utah Public Health Department. "We
were going to target pregnant women."

Plans changed.

"We realized this would be more of a matching game than simply getting
people in," Mr. Heaton said.

When enough doses do become available for the general public, officials have
plans in place to open drive-through vaccination clinics they call
"shootouts."

The clinics were first planned in preparation for the avian flu.

"The swine flu caught us off guard last April, but we've drilled them and
done them so now we can do that successfully with the H1N1 vaccine as it
comes in," he said of the clinics. "We're geared up and ready to go."



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