Shortage of Shots as More Kids Die of Swine Flu

MSNBC: In the past week, 11 more children have died from H1N1 influenza infections, an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, bringing the total to 86 children since April. That's a startling number because in some past winters, the CDC has counted 40 or 50 child deaths for the entire flu season — and no one knows how long this swine flu outbreak will last.
October 17, 2009 at 7:47 am - MSNBC
Dateline: Washington DC
juandos   October 19th, 2009 - 6:48 am

Consider that this sob story is from NBC and Dave Gregory who is at best a completely incompetent boob who panders to all sorts of leftist crapola makes the contents of this video questionable…

Has anyone asked how many children die from the normal flu bouts during any single year?

Has there been any comparison made between swine flu and regular flu when it comes to deaths?

pepito cojones   October 22nd, 2009 - 8:09 pm

And these government idiots and doofusses want to run a National Healthcare? What a mockery of a scam! These dingbats couldn’t even run a smooth “cash for clunkers” program…

Fingal   October 28th, 2009 - 1:27 pm

What’s a mockery of a scam, exactly? An honest operation run so that it *looks* dishonest?

Swine flu is waaay overblown, and so is the benefit of vaccination. There’s no left-right difference on this, it’s the usual medical-industry suspects, D’s and R’s alike.

You can’t develop an effective vaccine against a constantly-mutating target — that’s why there’s no cure for the “common cold.” And swine-flu rates are peaking already, when hardly anyone has gotten their shot.

As for who should run health care, private enterprise is indeed more efficient — at delivering profits to Wall Street. Paying for actual *care* interferes with that, so it’s aggressively minimized, much to the dismay of the sick.

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