Swine Flu on Track to Be a Pandemic

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seo lace of AL 1:02AM May 03, 2010

is it wise to take the vaccin of swin flu now while it has not been tested enough and might cause side effects

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Luis of GA 1:57PM October 29, 2009

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soma sema of MD 7:49AM July 04, 2009

The reason this virus has not hit nursing homes yet is because the elderly in nursing institutions are relatively quarantined to the institution. They dont get out enough to come into contact with this virus. Also, old people dont really know when they are sick or not. They dont even know who or where they are most of the time. They wouldn't know swine flu if it hit them on the head. These doddery old geezers need to just stay inside, away from the germs and robots of the future, because they are weak and feeble creatures, confused and scared. The virus knows this and will let them live, because the virus shows mercy. All hail H1N1! Conform or be assimilated. Zeepo Zonkz Quarzanka.

Dan of MO 10:02AM May 13, 2009

One in three Americans — approximately 87 million people -- went without health insurance for some period during 2007 and 2008.
The potential H1N1 flu (swine flu) pandemic in America offers yet another example of the health risk that 1500 fragmented private health insurance companies place on Americans. Many private health insurances will not pay for Tamiflu (oseltamivir) or zanamivir (Relenza). These are the only treatments that have been shown to have any effect on H1N1 flu.
Or, physicians and patients may be required to go through the standard lengthy and expensive pre-authorization process in order to beg the insurance companies for the most appropriate treatment. Yet these treatments should be started within 48 hours of illness.
If you are one of the 50 million Americans without health insurance, you won’t have access to the treatments at all, unless you can pay for them yourself.
In addition, the disconnected electronic medical records and disease monitoring and billing systems of the 1500 separate American private health insurance companies prevents timely epidemiological diagnosis and targeting of pandemics, thereby delaying the response of doctors and public health officials.
WITH SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH INSURANCE FOR ALL, integrated with a single medical record system, diseases or bio-nuclear terrorism could be instantly identified, isolated, and everyone could be treated.
This possible H1N1 flu (swine flu) pandemic demonstrates yet another dangerous deficiency of private insurance companies which serve no real purpose in the health and well being of Americans.
Only a single-payer approach to healthcare reform will END THE INHUMANITY OF OUR FAILED HEALTHCARE INSURANCE SYSTEM, WHERE PROFITS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PATIENTS’ HEALTH, and where people die because of it.
ASK your Senators and Representatives to support single-payer healthcare reform.

Hannah W. of MT 10:25PM May 12, 2009