We blundered over swine flu, admit health chiefs

Dailymail UK ^ | 13th April 2010 | Mail Foreign Service

[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.

[SeattleBruce]

“We blundered over swine flu, admit health chiefs”

Expecting Joe Biden to announce on TV what a BFD it is that obamunist prevented the swine flu...;) What else can they point to as an ‘accomplishment?’

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

We blundered over swine flu, admit health chiefs

But we're going to force you to get vaccinated under our ObamaCare plan!!!

[opentalk]

really, who knows what surprises are in the bill.

[autumnraine]

Well no worries! We have advertisements here in Atlanta about how the H1N1 is making a big ole comeback and everyone must be vaccinated and you should really get your child a SECOND DOSE as well!

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

This was no blunder. This was an intentional trumped-up managed crisis. You could see it unfold as such.

But I will be happy to see the resignation of all the blunderers and the disbanding of the blunderer’s organization anyway. That works for me.

[jmaroneps37]

http://www.collinsreport.net/2010/02/03/n1h1-scare-another-united-nations-leftist-hoax-the-numbers-say-absolutely/
HOAX!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Maris Crane]

BS....BS.....COVER UP...

Everything is forgiven now.

NOW SHUT UP ABOUT HOW YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW.

[Eleutheria5]

How about that time there was a national emergency because a chicken said the sky was falling?

[SecAmndmt]

According to Dr David Brownstein, taking the flu vax makes one more susceptible to non-flu illness. If correct, yet another example of whackamole conventional medicine

[StAnDeliver]

Thanks for this blast from the past. Let’s see what Bobo was doing at the same time. BRB.

[StAnDeliver]

WELL WELL WELL LET'S LOOK AT THIS FROM APRIL 27, 2010:

One Year Later: 5 Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic

"On April 2009, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered that two children in California had been infected with a new strain of influenza virus — originally dubbed "swine flu" but eventually and more accurately known as H1N1 — even as Mexican health officials grappled with major outbreaks of a new flulike illness. By the end of the month, with new cases popping up in New York City, Canada and Europe, officials had come to realize they had a global emergency on their hands."

"On April 27, 2009, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Margaret Chan announced that the agency would raise the global flu pandemic alert level from 4 to 5 — the first concrete step toward acknowledging that the world was caught in the grip of its first new pandemic in more than four decades."

"Within weeks, the H1N1 virus was spreading around the world, and by June the WHO had raised the alert level again, officially declaring an influenza pandemic. Since most people had no immune protection against the H1N1 virus, which had been simmering in swine populations for years before jumping into human beings in Mexico, it spread rapidly."

"U.S. cases piled up in late spring, and both the sick and the "worried well" flooded hospitals, taxing health care resources. Schools shut down, sometimes for weeks, to stem the spread of the disease, leaving millions of schoolchildren — and their parents — stranded at home. In other countries, the response was more severe: in Mexico, the government banned public gatherings; in China, travelers from affected regions who showed signs of flu were quarantined."

From the start, the vast majority of H1N1 cases seemed relatively mild, but officials still had to work to keep the population from panicking. "This is obviously a cause for concern," said President Barack Obama on April 27, 2009. "It's not a cause for alarm."

As it turned out, Obama was right — almost painfully so. Pharmaceutical companies had crashed an H1N1-vaccine-production program, and governments around the world (including Washington) had drawn up hasty plans to fend off a potential "second wave" of H1N1, which they feared could turn the upcoming fall flu season into a public-health disaster.

Yet catastrophe never came, and the total U.S. death toll from H1N1 — about 13,000 people over the past year — was considerably smaller than the 36,000 people who are estimated to die each year from the regular, seasonal flu. Millions of doses of H1N1 vaccine expired unused on doctors' shelves, and health officials are now under fire for overhyping what eventually seemed like a harmless bug. So, was H1N1 much ado about nothing?

[Syncro]

This was Obama’s fault.

He waited for 6 months after the outbreak and 1000 dead before declaring it a Nat’l emergency.

If he had gotten on it right away, the vaccines would have been created earlier and saved thousands of lives.

As it was, I believe over 10,000 died.

[StAnDeliver]

One Year Later: 5 Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic

"On April 2009, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered that two children in California had been infected with a new strain of influenza virus — originally dubbed "swine flu" but eventually and more accurately known as H1N1 — even as Mexican health officials grappled with major outbreaks of a new flulike illness. By the end of the month, with new cases popping up in New York City, Canada and Europe, officials had come to realize they had a global emergency on their hands."

"On April 27, 2009, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Margaret Chan announced that the agency would raise the global flu pandemic alert level from 4 to 5 — the first concrete step toward acknowledging that the world was caught in the grip of its first new pandemic in more than four decades."

"Within weeks, the H1N1 virus was spreading around the world, and by June the WHO had raised the alert level again, officially declaring an influenza pandemic. Since most people had no immune protection against the H1N1 virus, which had been simmering in swine populations for years before jumping into human beings in Mexico, it spread rapidly."

"U.S. cases piled up in late spring, and both the sick and the "worried well" flooded hospitals, taxing health care resources. Schools shut down, sometimes for weeks, to stem the spread of the disease, leaving millions of schoolchildren — and their parents — stranded at home. In other countries, the response was more severe: in Mexico, the government banned public gatherings; in China, travelers from affected regions who showed signs of flu were quarantined."

From the start, the vast majority of H1N1 cases seemed relatively mild, but officials still had to work to keep the population from panicking. "This is obviously a cause for concern," said President Barack Obama on April 27, 2009. "It's not a cause for alarm."

As it turned out, Obama was right — almost painfully so. Pharmaceutical companies had crashed an H1N1-vaccine-production program, and governments around the world (including Washington) had drawn up hasty plans to fend off a potential "second wave" of H1N1, which they feared could turn the upcoming fall flu season into a public-health disaster.

Yet catastrophe never came, and the total U.S. death toll from H1N1 — about 13,000 people over the past year — was considerably smaller than the 36,000 people who are estimated to die each year from the regular, seasonal flu. Millions of doses of H1N1 vaccine expired unused on doctors' shelves, and health officials are now under fire for overhyping what eventually seemed like a harmless bug. So, was H1N1 much ado about nothing?

[unixfox]

Even worse, had this been a real threat, thousands, if not millions, would have died because of the incompetence of our own government.

It's what they DON'T tell us that should concern everybody.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The Obama HHS declared in a "public health emergency" in April 2009, when there were not so many deaths in the US, maybe zero. After over 1,000 died he declared it a "national emergency." I am not sure what the difference is.

But if Trump had done the same the media would have said he didn't act fast enough.

[Redcitizen]

“Wait until they are making life and death decisions in health care.”

Veteran’s Health Hospital and Indian Health Services are under government control. De Facto life and death decisions in health care.

[Ratman0823]

I remember the Swine Flu panic-demic of 1977. First and only time I got a flu shot, since I was in the middle of finals I needed to get my BS at the time.

As I recall, the flu shot worked really well. I got the flu shortly after receiving the shot. Luckily, it didn’t interfere with my finals.

I’ve steadfastly refused to get another flu shot in the 43 years since, and I will probably refuse to get one for as long as I’m alive, or at least mentally competent enough to make my own medical decisions.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I called AIDS “the swine flu of the eighties” when it first surfaced. I was a bit off on that prediction but it never became the civilization ending plague it was feared to be.

[Gator113]

LOL....showing me something I had posted 10 years ago made me dizzy and locked up my brain.

[dfwgator]

“WE DIDN’T LISTEN!!!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-GcC3YXfg