Fall Vaccination Campaign May Include 3 Flu Shots

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

The Obama administration is considering an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign that could entail giving Americans three flu shots -- one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu sweeping across the globe this month.

The multi-billion-dollar effort would represent the first time that federal health leaders have asked Americans to get more than one flu vaccine in a single year, raising serious challenges around production, distribution and the ability to track potentially severe side effects.

Experts in and out of the administration are now evaluating a raft of complicated issues, including who ought to receive an innoculation against the swine flu and whether private vaccine makers can simultaneously manufacture the standard 180 million doses and up to 600 million rounds of the new vaccine.

"We are moving forward with making a vaccine," said Dr. Robin Robinson, a director with the Department of Health and Human Services who oversees pandemic response programs. Robinson said while a formal decision has not been made about the swine flu vaccine, if the government goes ahead, it would likely produce two doses for all Americans. If the pandemic diminishes, he said, health officials could decide to produce doses for only a portion of the population.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050503378.html?hpid=topnews

[virgogal]

1. Hmmmm. The idea of all those vaccines makes me a tad twitchy.

[formercia]

2. Especially with a side-order of H5N1

I guess the scare worked.

[kestrel91316]

6. Fine. Don't get them. Just don't try to keep others from getting them if they want.

[virgogal]

7. Do you actually think I'd try to prevent others from getting

the shots? Where on earth did you get that idea?

I worry about vaccines that are developed too quickly,that's all.

[formercia]

28. I always get a flu shot.

but I'll make sure to check what company made it first.

[peaches2003]

31. More info on companies, please

Are there particular companies you would avoid? I am 69, hubby 70, and we always get flu shots. Three flu shots, however, makes me a little nervous. Son is a doc and I will get his opinion on this in the fall and also the various companies to avoid if any, but would appreciate your opinion since you posted this.

[formercia]

33. Baxter for one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x305326

[kestrel91316]

5. Then DON'T GET THEM.

[tkmorris]

18. Relax. We're discussing the issue here

Not plotting to steal all the vaccines.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Ka-ching !! x 3

[semillama]

4. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are go!

[BuddhaGirl]

19. no kidding!

:thumbsup:

[OhioChick]

8. What about those w/no health care and can't afford to get them? n/t

[KoKo]

9. Don't worry all the Drug Companies who make Vaccines will line up to give you FREE!

They can't wait to get "free testing."

[OhioChick]

11. Guinea pigs, huh? n/t

[Ms. Toad]

25. Hey - it worked for the MMR

My (adopted) brother and sister got the pre-release version when they were in foster care after their birth parents abandoned them. Don't know if they do that anymore, but at the time the MMR vaccine was being developed they absolutely used the most vulnerable population as guinea pigs before releasing it for general use.

[murielm99]

21. I get my flu shot at the county health department.

It is very inexpensive. Those who are low income get a reduced price. I am not sure if anyone gets a free shot. I have not checked.

[Odin2005]

10. I see the anti-Vax crazies are already going nuts.

:eyes:

[KoKo]

12. No..the practical umongst us who have experience working with Big Pharma

just know "the deal" of how it works.

[Hannah Bell]

26. and i see the anti-anti-vax crazies are already beginning their eye-rolling smiley campaign,

laced with dollops of personal denigration.

[Odin2005]

34. As someone on the Autism spectrum I have very personal and justified reason to hate these crazies..

The next person who tells me that I am "poisoned" and need to be "cured" is going to have my fist coming at their face.

[Hannah Bell]

37. sorry, we don't get to hit people even if they say things we don't like.

[nodehopper]

40. ...except that vaccines don't cause autism

and like the poster above said, we don't get to hit people even if they say stuff we don't like.

[sarcasmo]

13. No, No, and NO! My response may include three No's.

[elocs]

14. As Dems we like personal choice. It's not nice to scare the sheeple.

My personal choice: PASS. I've never had a flu shot and don't intend to getting scared into getting one now. The sky is not falling and I remember the swine flu vaccine from 1976.

[PM Martin]

15. Many people with egg allergies cannot have them.

[CountAllVotes]

16. someone I know almost died from the Swine Flu shots in 1976

it was required by the company that said person worked for at the time. He almost died from it and is permanently disabled today.

They can take their damn shots and shove 'em.

:kick:

[Earth_First]

17. My mother was hospitalized after hers...

Fine one day and then hospitalized with acute respitory pnemonia the next.

I'll pass.

[kirby]

23. Nothing is risk free...

I heard of someone who was killed because they were wearing a seat belt and could not escape the car in time too.

[BuddhaGirl]

20. I will pass as well

I've never had a flu shot either - the media has done a great job hyping this so-called "pandemic" :eyes:

[elocs]

27. I am not passing based upon being a tough guy, but from experience and knowledge.

If I have ever had the flu it was such a mild case that I thought it was only a bad cold. Being nearly 57 I was exposed to a cousin of this current flu strain in the early '50s and again in the '70s. If, or when we do have a real pandemic I wonder if people will be burned out from the cry wolf pandemics. We must remember that in a normal flu season 36000 people die in this country from the flu and that makes this current "pandemic" look like a case of the sniffles.

[Mojorabbit]

22. Despite the all is well meme

they must be really worried about what may happen in the fall. I can't take the flu vaccine due to a health condition but if we have a really high case fatality rate in the fall if this thing does a 1918 I would take it.

[peaches2003]

32. They are very worried

that the H1N1 'swine' flu virus will mutate by fall combining with another flu virus and come back very strong. This is what it did before, in 1918 I think they said. That is the fear now. All these flu viruses are different- hubby had the flu shot last year and then got another kind of flu. They gave him Tamiflu, which you have to take immediately after the first symptoms. It worked beautifully, but very expensive.

[Hardrada]

24. I have some immunity since I had a bout of Asian Flu in 1957

and will go with that.

[Hannah Bell]

29. I've heard Baxter's making the vaccine. Does anyone know if this is true?

[woodsprite]

30. Didn't more people die from SFlu vaccines than from the flu last time? n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

35. Yes, but we don't know how many would have died if no one have been vaccinated

[MicaelS]

36. Prepare for the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the Anti-Vaxers

Gets me all warm and fuzzy just thinking about that. Just proves you can be a "Proud member of the reality-based community" and still be crazy as a fucking bedbug! :evilgrin:

[Robb]

38. I will be at the front of the line.

I am on Day 12 of the standard, non-swine-variety flu. It has kicked my little hiney.

Mrs. Robb got her shot this year, recommended due to her pregnancy. And she is smugly healthy.

There is risk to everything, but compared to two weeks of not being able to lift my head, I think it's a reasonable risk here.

[uppityperson]

41. Me too. Hoping you feel better soon.

I'm dealing with something here also, trying to keep it out of my chest but my throat and neck hurt like heck.

[crankmob]

39. i'm going to spend the summer eating food that helps strengthen my immune system

will pass on the shots :smoke: