Posted on 04/13/2010 11:25:53 AM PDT by opentalk
Global health chiefs have finally admitted that they may have overreacted to the swine flu 'pandemic' - landing governments with millions of unused vaccines. The World Health Organisation has conceded that it may have been guilty of failing to communicate 'uncertainties' about how virulent the new virus was.
Critics say the UN agency was too quick to designate the influenza a pandemic in June after it spread from Mexico. Keiji Fukuda, its top influenza expert, yesterday admitted a six-phase system for declaring this was confusing and the bug was not actually as deadly as bird flu. 'The reality is there is a huge amount of uncertainty (in a pandemic),' he said. 'I think we did not convey the uncertainty. That was interpreted by many as a non-transparent process.' He admitted the scale may be flawed as it takes into account the geographic spread of a virus but not its severity.
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You always gotta take advantage of a ginned up crisis
Never let a good crisis go to waste...
Oh the age of Obama....
National emergency, equaled MONEY GRAB.
How many billions of dollars did this overreaction cost us?
How many congresspeople had stock in these companies that made money on this deal.
What are the real stats on the flu especially for the aged. There are no control groups. They just line up and we assume they would have gotten the flu except they had the shot.
Oh, but wait until next year.....
Didn’t they do the same thing back around 1977?
yep, you nailed it — even if they have to lie ...
Lies are the source of most things liberal.
The gubmint can’t even administer a stupid shot no one needed. Wait until they are making life and death decisions in health care.
It may actually have been a pandemic (that just means it spread quickly and broadly). It just wasn’t a serious illness. Probably, most people who got it didn’t even know it. Sounds like they overestimated the virulence.
pharmaceutical payoff....
‘Gotta have a at least a PhD to screw up like that.
Exactly! It was certainly swept under the rug. Amazing how the MSM just lets certain news just disappear.
Perhaps your statement is true on a general level. But for my experience, healthy adult no pre existing condition, hospitalized for 5 days with H1N1, pneumonia and dehydration. Still feeling affects today.
The 50yo female across the hall also with H1N1 (same bland medical history) was care flighted the next day to Ohio State University Medical Center, intubated, and passed away in two weeks.
Nothing but a scam to steal billions of tax dollars.
Even worse, had this been a real threat, thousands, if not millions, would have died because of the incompetence of our own government.
Just another of Obama’s many failures.
they may have overreacted to the swine flu 'pandemic'
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