so sad
Posted on 10/30/2009 3:12:06 PM PDT by upchuck
Only half of the people in the United States who most need immediate treatment for H1N1 swine flu are actually seeking it, even as the virus spreads at unprecedented speed, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
The latest count shows 114 children have been killed by the virus in the United States since April, during a time when there is usually virtually no influenza, said U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden.
H1N1 is widespread, he said, and case counts continue to rise in most states.
"One of the things that we have been surprised to see is even among people who have underlying conditions such as asthma, heart disease or lung disease, only half sought care," Frieden told reporters in a briefing.
At the same time, emergency departments were crowded but often with people who did not need medical care, he said.
CDC researchers estimated this week that as many as 5.7 million people in the United States have been infected so far, with at least 1,300 deaths.
The pandemic influenza is mild to moderate in most people but it can cause sudden, severe and overwhelming disease in certain groups, such as those with chronic disease.
Unlike seasonal influenza, which is dangerous mostly to the elderly, this new strain is hitting younger adults and children -- including at least a third with no previous health condition.
The CDC has designated about 160 million people as having priority, including pregnant women, children, healthcare workers and people under age 65 with underlying diseases.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
CDC researchers estimated this week that as many as 5.7 million people in the United States have been infected so far, with at least 1,300 deaths.
Seems like I read about 30,000 people die every year from the flu. If so, this is hardly an emergency. Granted, losing lives is not a good thing. But this stat is like the number of people who die in car wrecks, getting hit by lightening, drown, etc.
Seems to me like they are trying to make a crisis, in the truest sense of the word, where none exists.
Stand, upchuck...
And take a bow. Spot on. I’m in one of those ‘at risk’ categories. Last time I had a flu shot, I couldn’t use either of my arms (!?) for a couple of days, and I caught the damn thing anyway.
I’ve had people trying to stampede me into being afraid of Global Warming, Global Ice Age, the Population Bomb, and countless other now-forgotten terrors over the span of my life (I’m 48), and I just don’t have any eek! left. There certainly are legitimate things to be concerned about- but where there’s hype, there’s no fire.
THEY are training YOU for the next crises, when the really try to turn things upside down.
Language evolves - as Orwell predicted. These days, people "die from man-caused disasters", but they are "killed by" a virus. Back when I was a wee lad, before our language got wee weed up, the two usages were reversed. People used to be killed by terrorist thugs (who needed killin) but they died from viruses.
they don’t have enough doses
people turned away after hours wait
and it’s OUR fault ?
Smart people know it's not so bad. Stupid people are scared to death and/or are using it to get a checkup and some free medicine.
‘unprecedented speed’........but it’s a MILD flu.!
Only half of the people in the United States who most need immediate treatment for H1N1 swine flu are actually seeking it,
So, are they dying or do they really not need the help?
Maybe, just maybe, if the CDC stopped spending money on and publishing bullshit studies about handguns being a ‘health crisis’, ‘wife-beating’ being a healthcare crisis, seat belts, eating tofu, smelling farts, and all the rest of the green PC bullshit jazz, sane people will take them seriously. Screw the CDC. In a ‘real’ national emergency, they will fold like a cheap WalMart beach chair...nuff said.
: )
The majority of the sane have spoken to the Zombie Gubbermint in a ways they didn't expect undermining their Pharma Ponzie scheme.
Hey D.C. Kremlin! Your manufactured pandemic scheme, is Nightmare on 1600 Transylvania ave. part 5. No one wants your biological rape!
Kathleen Sabelus Kruger! Take a very long walk off a short pier!
I’m employed by a contract service provider for a joint university-medical trauma center. Even at the remote biomedical research location where I work, the hospital keeps threatening (via email) H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccinations for all personnel, including contractors, as a condition of continued employment. And I hope they keep running out soon as they announce yet another shipment of the stuff received. Some hypocondriac is more than welcome to take my free, forced dose of germs and chemicals.
Eventually I’ll have to take it because I need the job, but I refuse to self report my ‘priority’ health status, and hope flu season is over before they work their way to contract workers on the periphery.
so sad
Oh, for God’s sake. Will they ever have a cohesive message? Didn’t they say that most people should just ride it out at home?
Not getting the numbers they want, I guess.
Sounds good to me!
The pier I mean. :)
Every half hour on the radio, we are getting the body count - it is up to THIRTEEN people in the state of Maryland who have died from H1N1. In the same time period multiples of thirteen have died from homicide, and about the same number from traffic accidents.
BTW, If
GWB (and Brownie) were personally responsible for every death in New Orleans; and for every person who ‘suffered’ in the Superdome.
Why isn’t BHO and his Sec of Health responsible for the lack of proper vaccine?
I would much rather catch swine flu than have this f-ed up manipulative, lying, pathetic excuse for a government inject anything into me ...
Let me know when 100,000 have died and until then, shut up, it isn’t news!
You are absolutely correct, upchuck! A doctor once asked me why people don’t believe them when they say, “You have to (fill in the blank), or YOU’RE GOING TO DIEEEEE!”
I reminded him of all the things doctors say are going to kill us: what we eat is going to kill us, what we drink is going to kill us, being inactive is going to kill us, being TOO active is going to kill us....and on and on. I told him that nobody wants to live in a perpetual state of fear. I also reminded him of the boy who cried wolf.
He seemed shocked.
Regards,
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