Eugenics! "Making Sure Your Kids Die Young!"
Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — At least 60 million Americans have received the swine flu vaccine out of 111 million doses available as of this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today.
Most states are now offering free inoculations to everyone after first limiting the shots to those most at risk, said Anne Schuchat, head of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, on a conference call with reporters. Vaccine availability across the country has been rising, even as illnesses are on the wane, according to the CDC.
Swine flu rates have declined for seven straight weeks and are at their lowest level since pupils returned to classes in September. Flu season in the Northern Hemisphere usually peaks in January and February, and Americans should get the swine flu vaccine to protect against the possibility of resurgence, Schuchat said.
“This is the time to act,” Schuchat said. “Just because people are taking time off for the holidays doesn’t mean this virus will.”
A CDC survey through Dec. 12 found 46 million people had been given the vaccine, and the Atlanta-based agency estimates that 14 million or more may have been vaccinated since then, Schuchat said.
Vaccinated Children
About 74 percent of parents who tried to get their children vaccinated were able to do so, according to a telephone survey conducted last week by the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Thirty-eight percent of all parents said their children were vaccinated, and 22 percent of high-risk adults have been inoculated, according to the survey.
Swine flu, or H1N1, infected 50 million people in the U.S. and killed an estimated 10,000 through Nov. 14 from the start of the pandemic in April, the CDC reported Dec. 10. About 36,000 people die each year in the U.S. from influenza.
Swine flu vaccines at first were given only to the most vulnerable people: children, young adults, pregnant women and adults with chronic health conditions. The vaccine is made using the same process as the seasonal flu, and continued monitoring has shown it equally safe and effective, Schuchat said.
About 35 percent of parents in the Harvard survey said they don’t plan to give their children the vaccine, and more than half of adults say they won’t get it. The top reason cited for not getting the shot or nasal spray was concern the vaccine may be unsafe.
Fighting Swine Flu With Pepperoni
Want Pizza? No worries, simply get a shot first!
The Detroit Health Department is fighting swine flu with pepperoni. When kids return to school after the holiday break, each class has the opportunity to get a free pizza party – if they sign up for the shots.
It’s a simple fact–kids don’t like vaccinations – even when they can get them in a spray.
Their parents, like Leslie Ethridge however, are often eager to get their kids protected, “Your children get 20 some odd inoculations, this is just another one, so if it’s available you should get the shot.”
But when Detroit schools – both public and private– sent home permission slips for students to get H1N1 vaccine at school, the return rate was only about ten percent.
Dr. Walter Davis, Detroit Pandemic Flu Coordinator, told us, “talking to principals and some parents we find that a lot of them are never receiving consent forms.”
The Detroit Health Department has already been working especially hard to get the vaccine into the community.
For instance, today parents attending the Christmas program at the Foreign Language Immersion School on Outer Drive had the chance to get shots for themselves and their children before or after the program.
Mom, Kimberley Wallace said, “This is the easiest for me. This way I don’t have to take them to the doctor’s office, take them out of school or anything so it works out real well.”
But apparently not well enough. So Dr. Davis and his team came up with an innovative idea. They teamed up with Happy’s Pizza. And each class in the city that has a permission slip return rate of 80-percent or more will get a pizza party for the entire class.
According to Neil Master, Director of Advertising for Happy’s Pizza, “Kids love pizza and we love kids in Detroit and we take care of them whenever we can.”
And while the kids may sign up for the pizza, the parents need to know it’s important to sign the forms because flu season isn’t over just because the number of cases have leveled off.
Dr. Davis told us, “With our flu season, the peak is usually in February and it goes into March. I can tell you we will get hit again. We’re in December now. In January and February, the flu will increase tremendously.”
Another mom, L’Tonya Felder got shots for her children, “I think it’s extremely important. It’s important that the Detroit community come together and realize this is important for our health for our protection and we’re combating the h1n1 as well as the regular seasonal flu.”
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