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AP Interview: Kids may get swine flu shots first

By LAURAN NEERGAARD – June 17, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and schools are being put on notice that they might even be turned into shot clinics.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday she is urging school superintendents around the country to spend the summer preparing for that possibility, if the government goes ahead with mass vaccinations.

“If you think about vaccinating kids, schools are the logical place,” Sebelius told The Associated Press.

No decision has been made yet on whether and how to vaccinate millions of Americans against the new flu strain that the World Health Organization last week formally dubbed a pandemic, meaning it now is circulating the globe unchecked. But the U.S. is pouring money into development of a vaccine in anticipation of giving at least some people the shots.

While swine flu doesn’t yet seem any more lethal than the regular flu that each winter kills 36,000 people in the U.S. alone, scientists fear it may morph into a more dangerous type. Even in its current form, the WHO says about half of the more than 160 people worldwide killed by swine flu so far were previously young and healthy.

If that trend continues, “the target may be school-age children as a first priority” for vaccination, Sebelius said Tuesday. “That’s being watched carefully.”

Schools do occasionally team up with local health officials for special flu vaccination clinics but it’s not common. More than 140 schools around the country scheduled flu vaccination days last fall, some providing free vaccine. Some vaccinated only students bearing parent consent forms; others opened their doors to entire families.

In a wide-ranging interview, Sebelius said it could take several years to meet President Barack Obama’s top healthcare priority — covering the uninsured — even if Congress manages to pass legislation this fall.

“Will something probably be phased in? You bet,” Sebelius told The AP. It could take until 2011 or 2012 to set up new programs, time that would help spread out a cost that by some estimates would be $1 trillion over 10 years.

Among the aims of the administration’s planned overhaul is to help eliminate health disparities between minority groups and whites, “which frankly is unconscionable,” Sebelius said.

Hispanics and blacks are more likely to lack health insurance, and also have higher rates of a host of illnesses. But Sebelius said some of the most severe disparities are found with American Indians, and pledged a multiyear effort to reverse “a historic failure of the government.” The U.S. is obligated to provide free health care on reservations, but the troubled Indian Health Service has only about half the money it needs.

More immediately, Sebelius faces the looming question of whether to push forward with swine flu vaccinations this fall, on top of the regular winter flu vaccine that will be distributed as usual. A key challenge would be making people understand who needs which, or both, vaccines, decisions that will be made in part based on how swine flu behaves in the Southern Hemisphere this summer, where flu season is just beginning.

Sebelius soon will call together the nation’s governors to be sure “these months between now and the fall aren’t used as vacation months” but in getting ready.

“We can always sort of back off” if the new flu fades away, she said, “but we can’t wait til October hits and say, ‘Oh my heavens, what are we going to do?’”

Companies are on track to provide pilot doses for testing later this summer, Sebelius said. Those government-led studies will check if the vaccine seems to work, if one dose or two will be needed, and most important if it’s safe. The last mass vaccination against a different swine flu, in the U.S. in 1976, was marred by reports of a paralyzing side effect — for a feared outbreak that never happened.

So the Food and Drug Administration will closely track vaccine safety, Sebelius said.

The secretary said: “The worst of all worlds is to have the vaccine cause more damage than the flu potential.”

Sexy Autism Ads: Clever or Catastrophic?

This woman ought to be ashamed of herself - what an absolute disgrace.

I apologize to my readership in advance for this posting, but it’s been bothering me for quite some time and I need to get it off my chest and into the eyes of anyone considering buying this or any product from Linn.

A few years ago, my husband had his eye on a very expensive piece of audio equipment. Very expensive. My husband does not ask for much and works very hard, so when he mentioned that he would like to use an upcoming bonus on himself instead of bills, the house, etc., I just could not object.

So, he purchases a Linn Unidisk SC - which plays CDs, DVDs, etc. Well, one day, it decides to stop playing CD’s and DVD’s. You can try 20+ times to get a DVD or CD to play (and that CD/DVD can be brand new out of the package) and maybe you’ll get it to play and maybe you’ll have to try many, many more times before it plays. And maybe you just give up because something is not working right. The unit has been given nothing other than TLC, never been moved, etc. There’s no reason for this to have happened.

So, my husband contacts Linn about getting it fixed under their 5 year warranty - and they claim they don’t have his registration. He even provided the receipt showing the date of purchase and they refuse to fix it under the warranty. Instead, they want over $500 to fix his unidisk. Also, when he contacted Linn, they told him that lasers were not covered under their warranty anyway. The laser is the most important part of the entire unit. And in this case, ours did not even last five years.

So, let the buyer beware. Linn does not stand behind thier products or warranties. Not exactly a company I would ever shell out $4,000.00 to again. Shame on you, Linn!

Linn’s Unidisk SC

Autism, Cancer and AIDS

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday said children shouldn’t stop taking drugs that treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, despite a study showing the stimulants may be associated with sudden death.

FDA Cites Limitations of ADHD Drug Study

Done!

Great piece by Dr Jay Gordon. Thank you for everything you do, Dr Jay.

Autism & Toxins, Jay Gordon, M.D.

Dr. Karp, if you are going to talk and blog about kitchen cleaners, furniture polish, pesticides and other toxins, how can you possibly ignore the 30-40 injections of potentially risky material we give children in their first 24 months of life? There is absolutely no proof that these shots are as safe the makers say they are and certainly no proof that new combinations of vaccines and hastily created shots are safe enough for our children.

This is exactly the point. And it’s always amazing to me how these doctors talk about how the toxins in our environment are harmful but when they’re injected directly into our child’s body bypassing any methods of defense - they are perfectly okay?

HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK WE ARE?

Dr. Karp and the whiney doctor from “The Doctors” show on TV both seem to need an injection of common sense. Don’t worry, it’ll be thimerosal free.