Posted on 11/14/2009 5:30:33 AM PST by gridlock
CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a panel made up of medical and public health experts, met July 29, 2009, to make recommendations on who should receive the 2009 H1N1 vaccine While some issues are still unknown, such as how severe the flu season, the ACIP considered several factors, including current disease patterns, populations most at-risk for severe illness based on current trends in illness, hospitalizations and deaths, how much vaccine is expected to be available, and the timing of vaccine availability.
The groups recommended to receive the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine include:
Pregnant Women because they are at higher risk of complications and can potentially provide protection to infants who cannot be vaccinated;
Household Contacts and Caregivers for children younger than 6 months of age because younger infants are at higher risk of influenza-related complications and cannot be vaccinated. Vaccination of those in close contact with infants younger than 6 months old might help protect infants by “cocooning” them from the virus;
Healthcare and Emergency Medical Services Personnel because infections among healthcare workers have been reported and this can be a potential source of infection for vulnerable patients;
All People from 6 Months Through 24 Years of Age Children from 6 months through 18 years of age because cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza have been seen in children who are in close contact with each other in school and day care settings, which increases the likelihood of disease spread, and Young adults 19 through 24 years of age because many cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza have been seen in these healthy young adults and they often live, work, and study in close proximity, and they are a frequently mobile population; and,
Persons Aged 25 Through 64 Years Who Have Health Conditions associated with higher risk of medical complications from influenza.
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So, if you are a young and productive taxpayer, aged 25 to 64, you are protected...
Or if you are a union-dues paying healthcare professional, you are protected...
If you are a child of a taxpayer, and a future taxpayer yourself, you are protected...
If you are a college age Obama voter, you are protected...
But if you are a retiree, over the age of 64, you are left out in the cold to die. This is the population that is most likely to die from the disease, but the CDC is using the vaccine on the young and healthy. They are saying that it is more important to protect a 22-year-old from a couple of weeks in a sickbed than it is to protect a 72-year-old from death.
Can anybody look at this priority list and not see our future under rationed Obamacare? This is the government priority list, printed in black and white, and yet AARP is all aboard the Obamacare Express, because they got their payoffs.
H1N1 death rates are highest in children and young adults.
The only way these recommendations make sense is if a lesser value is placed on the lives of the elderly, because they are far more likely to suffer and die from this disease.
H1N1 has already swept through most major cities. All of my family currently recovering from NOT having a vaccine. Thank you government for your usual efficiency!
Because I am 65, I also took great notice of the fact that the highest death rate is among the elderly. AARP should be screaming to the highest hill BUT they get billions from the insurance industry....shhhhh....don’t tell.
That's because everybody who dies of it over the age of 64 is dying of "Old Age".
Did you know that every death in a British National Health Service of a person over 55 years old is ascribed to "Old Age", regardless of the cause?
Hmmm, I wonder if this is the start of death panels excluding the elderly?
What ever happened to age discrimination???
The AARP has sold out their membership for a huge payday. When the Medicare Advantage program is cut, AARP will make Billions of Dollars selling supplemental insurance.
There has been a mention of some residual immunity in people who had some of the flu strains years ago.
Whereas I know as well as anyone else that they intend to kill us 65+ off, everyone I know over 65 who has had it lived, and recovered mostly in a week, with the usual flu lingering aftereffects, but they did not consider it that big a deal. That does not mean they enjoyed it, of course.
They're from the Government, and they're here to help you.
They'll just exempt themselves from all those pesky laws you have to follow every day.
Every child I know who has gotten it has recovered in a week, as well. Deaths are still a rare outcome, for all populations. But that does not mean it will not get a lot worse.
They will instruct the media and the CDC to post what the people want to hear and they will control the vaccine in areas and populations they deem important to thier cause. REDISTRIBUTION! Who are the priority target groups? really...
They will instruct the media and the CDC to post what the people want to hear and they will control the vaccine in areas and populations they deem important to thier cause. REDISTRIBUTION! Who are the priority target groups? really...
The data says that immunizations prior to 2005 and age >50 are both (relatively) protective.
There's excellent data from Australia, where the actual date of introduction is known and where the winter is now over, that confirms the increased mortality among the young, relative to over-50s.
sorry, itchy trigger finger, ha!
My understanding is that this strain is similar to one that elderly have already been exposed to many moons ago. Chances are they have antibodies for H1N1 already existing in their blood.
All I know is i got received the normal flu vaccination and got sick a few weeks later.
I’ll take my chances with the flu, if it comes. I don’t trust vaccines.
So far I don’t know a single person in my life who has had swine flu or for that matter the regular seasonal flu. All my family members take lots of odorless garlic supplements as well as other supplements like antioxidants, we wash our hands frequently (a habit) and the 7 of us haven’t been sick with flu or colds in years.
Sorry, Jim. I simply don’t believe the government on this one. Your a bright guy and I respect you, but I simply don’t buy it.
They have their priorities, that they have demonstrated over and over again. And now this hand-waving argument about residual immunity is exactly congruent with their stated priorities.
When something fits that neatly, and when the same outfits who have the priority are controlling the data, I just do not believe them, anymore.
Look at the Global Warming farce if you want another example. The priority is to redistribute wealth and cut US consumption, and all of the so-called data just happens to support that priority. I just don’t buy it.
The government will always come up with some semi-plausible reason they are cutting off seniors from healthcare. They will never say “Because We Can”, and leave it at that. But at the end of the day, they are doing it because they can.
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