Exclusive: Sebelius Says H1N1 Vaccine To Be Released Earlier Than Expected

Haste is waste. Most people with no underlying conditions don't really need the commercially lucrative vaccine against H1N1, considering the mass hysteria caused by the media. This vaccine will not prevent seasonal influenza which causes several thousand deaths annually (far more than the swine flu has caused in the USA) and should not confuse people who need to take the seasonal vaccine and may think that this is the seasonal vaccine. Consider taking the seasonal flu vaccine first and now there is a choice of mist or injection seasonal flu vaccine. Then if you think you need the H1N1 would be beneficial, take that one too. It is a personal choice. I have traveled extensively since the outbreak of H1N1 including in areas where there have been outbreaks and I have not been infected but I would recommend it to healthcare workers, those who come in contact with most number of people, those with underlying chronic illnesses and those in the age group that has been affected the most or has had the most fatalities. Consult your physician before lining up for the H1N1 vaccine.

I would like to know how much money has been contributed to ALL the senators and representatives in both houses of Congress by the Health Insurance and Pharmacy lobbies.

Please provide this information for public perusal.

I suspect that the loudest protests to the healthcare project are VERY large recipients to these PAC funds.

A Rockefeller lecturing us about health care reform. What a joke. He can afford any health care he may need. The average American cannot! Maybe Rockefeller can use his own fortune to pay for Obamacare.

What heros we have! Over estimate first then celebrate when you achieve the normal.

After the incompetence of the last administration, this is a welcome change of pace.

Why does George bother to have a quiet thinking expert like J Rockefeller on if he doesn't intend to let him get a word in edgewise between the loudmouths?

Thank you for the visionary comments on infectious disease. Clearly, the healthcare industry, inventors of the polio vaccine, penicillin, and all the other cures out there, is bad and should be condemned. Since you think its so bad, i propose a new law--you can "opt out", so you and your family can be treated in special clinics, with no vaccines, technology, new drugs and the like--it will be SUPER CHEAP, yippee! Since us folks that create these cures are so bad, we really do not want you taking our greed-motivated cures anyway. When your child or mother is dying from flu or cancer or MRSA, or cancer please explain that to them. I am sure they will understand.

I think we should boycott this vaccine until its worth and safety have been proven. I had this flu several weeks ago and it is strongly over-hyped. It was pretty much the same as any other I have ever had.

I've heard that drug companies don't want anything to do with a vaccine because of liability and law suits.

"Since us folks that create these cures are so bad, we really do not want you taking our greed-motivated cures anyway". You guys are my heros! What would we do without you?

You would have to kill me to force this crap on my family.

randy, do you have a stash of your vaccine?

My mother is completely bedreden. It is hard to find a docter who is licsend to make house calls.She is a diebetic,different skin disorders,lung problems and she has a cyste on her leg that is the size of a grapefruit that is spreading.She has medicare & medicaid.She can walk , so the only way to get her out of the house is by ambalance.She is also full of arthritis. Can any one help? She is 78 years old and weights 409 lbs..

back to reply for Karen ,my mother cannot walk,I made a mistake

"Licensed to make house calls"? Sorry steat of affairs we find ourselves in I think.

Karen, have you called your local fire department? If you're not in a municipality that is equipped to handle patients of her condition and size, the fire department in the nearest larger community should be able to give you a referral for a transport ambulance equipped to deal with such patients. If that fails, call your area hospitals and ask their emergency and/or gerontology offices. Call your nearest adult protective services authority, too, as well as any county office on aging (the two should be connected). You should also have a county public health physician’s office that could be of assistance in finding a physician who could treat her at home.

Your mother needs care as soon as possible and probably should be in a care facility anyway with her health circumstances what they are. Keep making those phone calls. You'll have to be the one who helps her get the care she needs if you're her nearest relative, and you want it on record that you made active attempts to seek assistance for her. I suggest that you closely document the calls you make and the answers you get, both so you can keep track of them and so you have that record if questions about your diligence arise later.

September 13, 2009

Obama’s Dissolving Credibility

By Robert Tracinski

We had our warning during the campaign, we really did.

Remember Barack Obama’s famous speech on race, back in March of 2008? Obama had spent 20 years listening to the sermons of Jeremiah Wright, full of venomous anti-Americanism and attacks on “white America.” Yet when the reverend’s rants were revealed to the public, Obama tried to convince us that he just happened to be missing from the pews on any well-documented Sunday, and that the Jeremiah Wright we saw and heard was not the Jeremiah Wright he knew.

It was a giant, implausible lie. Yet the speech was smoothly delivered and well-turned, perfectly balanced to seem to empathize both with the grievances of blacks and with the concerns of whites. So most people seemed to believe it.

This is what Obama’s supposed gift for rhetoric amounts to: the ability to tell a smoothly polished bald-faced lie.

And that was the whole essence of Obama’s big health-care speech. It was a pack of lies from beginning to end, and if we’re going to finally see through this flim-flam artist once and for all-as more and more people are beginning to do-then we had better identify them one at a time.

I’ll skip the lies by omission-his only mention of town hall meetings, for example, was of people who “shared their stories with us” because they are “counting on us to succeed” in passing a health-care bill. Yeah, that’s what happened at town hall meetings last month!

And I’ll skip the non-health-care lies, like Obama’s claim that he merely inherited giant deficits-when his first big legislative campaign was for three quarters of a trillion dollars in new deficit spending. Or his claim that the economic crisis was brought back from the brink “thanks to the bold and decisive action we have taken since January.” (Does anybody remember that day in February when the Dow dropped 300 points because Obama’s Treasury Secretary gave a speech in which he failed to outline any details of his latest plan? Bold and decisive indeed.) Or Obama’s claim that Ted Kennedy was not an advocate of big government.

For now, let’s just stick to the speech’s seven big lies.

We all want a vaccine BUT WE ALL WANT ONE THAT IS SAFE!!! These so called clinical trials going on just last what 2 or 3 weeks- that is not sufficient time to know yet if the vaccine is safe. George- Let's hear more about the safety. The trials have not even started yet on children - and they should not until more is known about the vaccine given to adults.

The trials on children are now nearly two months old, Angela, and the safety trials on the vaccine itself have been ongoing for the entirety of the summer. The first testing began before June.

This answer never makes people happy, but it’s the best we can do. Flu vaccine is by its very nature quick-to-market. It has to be because new flu viruses arise, spread and change so rapidly. Vaccine is needed in human deployment long before it can be tested for a period of years. This H1N1 vaccine employs the same manufacturing and vaccine science as our yearly flu vaccines. That manufacturing process has been perfected over a period of decades, and testing on these vaccines has been ongoing over these same decades. American H1N1 vaccine does not contain adjuvants, and the pediatric and gestational vaccine does not contain the preservative Thimerosal, which has not been linked with neurotoxicity or autism anyway but which still generates lots of rumors to the contrary. Thimerosal is an organic form of ethyl mercury, not the neurotoxic methyl mercury.

All vaccines carry with them some element of risk because, like any medicine, they don’t affect all people the same way. Vaccines don’t provide equal effectiveness for all people, either. As a whole, however, flu vaccines are among the safest on the market, containing no questionable excipients, containing no adjuvants, and having been tested and perfected for several decades.

to take this vaccine would be to say you trust the government. . . . lets see how many americans are asleep at the wheel later this year

Waste of money......

Regardless of any potential merits of vaccination, the troubling fact is there exists a massive conflict of interest between Big Pharma and execs at the FDA (and CDC, for that matter). There's a veritable revolving door between the entities. Mix in literally thousands of lobbyists to make sure any legislation is favorable to their interests and not yours, and you have the perfect storm for questionable vaccines pushed on a gullible, easily-frightened public.

I welcome those who reject the vaccine. They are doing a great service to the USA by making Social Security last longer since fewer people will be around to collect!

kellybelle, thanks for your accurate, rational comments. It's obvious that few (if any) of the posters here have ever had a full-blown case of the flu. "You think you're going to die, but you don't" is a fairly good description of how it can feel. It can take months to fully recover. And, of course, tens of thousands of people in the US DO die from the flu every year.