Posted on 08/13/2009 8:17:40 AM PDT by neverdem
Edited on 08/13/2009 8:18:14 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Relatives of the city's first swine flu fatality say they are ready to sue the city for $40 million.
Mitchell Wiener's widow Bonnie and his three sons, Adam, Jordan and Farrell, filed a notice of claim alleging the city was negligent in dealing with the outbreak that swept through the city three months ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I WANT MY PIE!
How does this woman know her husband got the flu at school? He might have been the one who brought it to the children. And, we were all warned.
gimme, gimme, gimme...
That coffee is TOO HOT!
Pay up.
I want a family like this to be stricken with Avian flu and die horribly, suffocating in their own fluids.
Good luck with that!....
I’m feeling the same anger.
Screw them.
Although several schemes to slow or interrupt transmission have been proposed, none are known to be effective.
It is reasonable to expect, based on data from the 1947, 1957, and 1968 pandemics that 60-75% of the human population will be infected within the next 18 months.
That is, 3.6 billion to 4.5 billion people - so if the mortality rate is a very low 0.5%, twenty million people will die.
Now, if failing to prevent H1N1 transmission becomes a reimbursable tort, we are going to run out of money pretty fast.
Greed, greed and more greed. Sorry for the loss of husband and father, but, this law suit is nothing more than pure greed for the family and the stupid lawyer that is filing the case. Judge should throw the case out.
It is called a cytokyne storm. It is when your immune system kills you, and it is frightening.
Like lawyers.
Time for tort reform.
May 16th 2009
“I’m outraged, I’m outraged”.
“Officials said Wiener had a history of medical problems that put him at greater risk.”
It’s never my fault.
And somebody else has always got to pay.
I’ll lay odds he was obese...
How interesting!
He was given an experimental drug:
“Mr. Wiener, 55, had been “overwhelmed” by the illness, despite beginning a course of treatment with an experimental drug, Ribavirin, after he failed to respond to other antiviral drugs, according to Ole Pedersen, a spokesman for Flushing Hospital Medical Center, where Mr. Wiener had been a patient since Wednesday.”
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/new-york-reports-its-first-swine-flu-death-may-17-2009-assistant-principal-new-york-city-public-school-mitchell-wiener-experimental-drug-ribavirin-overwhelmed-by-the-illness/
Another “experiment”...he was administered a “special vaccination.” It had to experimental because they’re just now testing the vaccines.
“At Flushing Hospital Sunday night, Mary S. Meguerditchian, 60, whose husband has been recovering from a stroke on the same floor as Mr. Wiener, said the family had seemed optimistic about Mr. Wiener’s chances on Saturday. But on Sunday Ms. Wiener had told her that a “special vaccination” had been administered to Mr. Wiener, “but it didn’t work,” Ms. Meguerditchian said.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/nyregion/18swine.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=health
“Mr. Wiener had a history of medical problems that may have put him at greater risk, the officials said. His family said that he had suffered from gout but that it was under control with medication.”
Photo here...looks like he might have been overweight:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/nyregion/18swine.html?_r=1&ref=health
Jim Noble, thanks for the epidemiological data. Do you have a convenient source?
A/California/04/2009 H1N1 influenza spreads extremely rapidly, and causes a generally mild illness.
Although several schemes to slow or interrupt transmission have been proposed, none are known to be effective.
It is reasonable to expect, based on data from the 1947, 1957, and 1968 pandemics that 60-75% of the human population will be infected within the next 18 months.
That is, 3.6 billion to 4.5 billion people - so if the mortality rate is a very low 0.5%, twenty million people will die.
Now, if failing to prevent H1N1 transmission becomes a reimbursable tort, we are going to run out of money pretty fast.
Indeed, we can't discuss tort reform while we're supposed to be having a debate about healthcare reform. This family is suing for what is no longer a reportable disease, and it's now being treated just like seasonal flu.
Making thing worse, this administration had plans for involuntary internment and quarantine for failure to comply with involuntary vaccinations, among other things. IIRC, the gathering of the safety and efficacy of these vaccines made by five different companies is still a work in progress.
Fortunately, a federal district court in NJ has issued a preliminary injunction against involuntary swine flu vaccinations.
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