Well, the Swine flu season is now under way, vaccine has been distributed, the first shots have been given with much fanfare, Tamiflu has been shipped, dentists and pharmacists have been deputized to give shots, health care workers in New York are protesting a mandate to get the shots, Emergency Health Powers have been enacted and the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) has been implemented to shield drug companies from any responsibility if things go wrong.  

Despite all the hype from the government the majority of people surveyed don’t trust the shots or what the government is telling us and the government is in full media mode characterizing anyone who even questions this “pandemic” as lunatics who are putting children’s lives at risk.

On October 2nd Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s director of immunization and respiratory disease, said there was “significant flu activity in virtually all states,” which, she added, was “quite unusual for this time of year.”

Interestingly just today the New York Times reports that public health officials say there appears to be a pattern of areas that had big outbreaks in the spring, like New York, Boston and Philadelphia, seeing less swine flu now. Is it any wonder no one trusts those like Dr. Schuchat?

And in an insult to our collective intelligence Dr. Schuchat and others argue that “the vaccine was neither new nor untested” because it is attached to the same “genetic backbone” of weakened flu virus as the 100 million seasonal flu injections given each year, grown in the same sterile eggs and purified in the same factories. And test injections done in September found that it had the same side effects, most of which were sore arms and mild fevers.

Given that Dr. Schuchat probably has more credentials related to infectious disease than any other person on this planet one can understand how intimidating it would be to disagree. However, a high school biology student can see the flaws in her arguments about whether this is a new vaccine or not and whether it’s been tested to an extent that should make everyone feel comfortable.
And if the vaccine is really nothing new and it really has been tested as much as it needs to be then why was the PREP Act implemented by the HHS Secretary? 

The truth is nobody knows what’s going to happen - not even Dr. Schuchat with all of her credentials - because they are just making educated guesses and everyone is now involved in a massive epidemiological study of the H1N1 vaccine. 

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• Flu View - Current Flu Activity & Surveillance
• H1N1 Situation Update
• The World Bank H1N1 Update Press Briefing

As always I look forward to your feedback, comments and suggestions.

Regards,

Matthew McCoy DC, MPH
matthewmccoy@comcast.net
Editor - Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health - Chiropractic
http://www.chiropracticpediatricresearch.net