Mixed Marks for Swine Flu Updates

Swine Flu and web reports

I/we have done a lot of research, and based on what I have read, most state and federal sites are behind the effort to put out more vaccines in spite of overwhelming evidence they will not work. It seems obvious that one the companies [Baxter] that has sent viruses live throughout the World [est. 18 countries], so they can make vaccines, are still getting a Lion's share of profits from this disease.

Vaccines are made with the live type A influenza virus, simply propagating a mild case of the flu through mass inoculation, yet valid scientific research states this virus can easily mutate, making these vaccines ineffective at best, while charging government and people many $billions to put these out.

For this reason alone, we should give all the websites reporting "mixed" reviews at best. For more on this and other related subjects, go to the web's "Healing News Network".

News about Pandemic Firstwave -public doesn't know what it's missing!

Better if Rand had polled the US public: to see whoever heard what's warned about on the page for individuals on pandemciflu.gov

that's been up since Oct.2005, and,

ask if they've read the, "US State Dept H5N1/Pandemic" travel policy/warning, in effect since July, 2006,

and then, asked local and state officials which of them refused to form actual, "all"-stakeholder PPCCs (First State/Local Task), and which hid H5N1 Pandemic Year Alert under exsiting, "all-hazards" planning- where it does not fit at all-

and why so mum on Preparedness - when pandemic "response" is, first and last, a Local responsibility?

See what concerned 'netizens' are doing to keep track of cases and encourage Preparedness on the,

"PFI Pandemic Flu Information Forum"

Or

Our doctors in Coos Bay, OR are ignoring the epidemic outbreak here. They're treating the unknown to them, H1N1 with anti bacterial medication. It's spreading like wild fire here.I had it. My wife got tested last week for it with no contact as to the results. We are a pathetic, lazy country or crooked.

Public Access to Swine Flu Data

I have been saying much the same thing from the beginning of this pandemic. Let's name some names:

Arkansas never bothered to produce any local content. All its novel H1N1 information was from the CDC.

Wisconsin has the highest number of cases, with Milwaukee being the U.S. city with the largest number of cases. Wisconsin stopped public reporting weeks ago and both Madison and Milwaukee have been very intermittent with their reporting.

Florida was the first state to stop public reporting, in the very early weeks of the outbreak.

At the outbreak appeared to peak in Utah, it stopped public reporting. The same was true for Washington a few weeks earlier. As case numbers exploded in King County, the state stopped reporting.

The CDC used the same figures from California for nearly 10 days in mid-May, until I asked about the lack of updates.

Louisiana failed to updated for nearly two weeks in late June.

At various times, the actual state case counts were as much as 18% higher than those of the CDC. Except for a very few states early on, no one posts data on the weekend.

With the Internet, there is no reason for any count to be less than a couple of hours old. There is no reason that the state sites, the states and the CDC should not all report the same figures.