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Hunting For Swine Flu Vaccine

by admin on November 19, 2009 · 0 comments

in From The Web, H1N1 Pandemic, H1N1 Symptoms & Effects, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama, Obama Care, Pandemic, swine flu

By Maggie Mertens for NPR
The swine flu vaccine remains scarce, but is slowly becoming a little less difficult to find.
Some people are getting the vaccine at doctors’ offices, some at college health centers, and some at public flu clinics. You’re best bet will depend on where you live.
As KQED’s Sarah Varney reports on Tuesday’s All [...]


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JACK SQUAT: A Year After The Election For President

November 3, 2009

A recent skit on Saturday Night Live had a report by President Obama, portrayed by comedian, Fred Armisen , on the accomplishments of his administration. It was summed up by Armisen in two words “Jack Squat.” Systematically listing the numerous promises that have not been fulfilled brought laughter from the audience, but perhaps it was [...]

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Is H1N1 Obama’s Katrina?

October 22, 2009

Fox News has depicted the H1N1 vaccine and the peak of the influenza as ships passing in the night.  The fact of the matter is the H1N1 vaccine will not be available for most of us, at least in this first go around, to make a measurable difference, since the spread of the disease has [...]

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Distribution of H1N1 Vaccine: A Real Test Of Government’s Access To Health Care?

October 16, 2009

As Congress is moving toward reforming the current health care system, the H1N1 pandemic offers a real time test of the efficacy of a government run system. For example, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus has an enrolled student body of approximately 10,000+ students . Primarily a commuter campus, students health care coverage [...]

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Politics Of Nobel Peace Prize Not So Noble

October 11, 2009

Well now we know  just how political the Nobel Prize Committee has become—there should not be any doubt with the election of Barack Obama to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Let’s put it in context, Gandhi never received the Nobel Prize, but Arafat did.
Cloaked in secrecy, the Nobel Prize Committee refuses to [...]

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“O”lympics, “O”bamas, “O”prah–Too Many Zeroes!

October 8, 2009

Not even close!  Floating the bid for the 2016 Olympics, Chicago’s balloon went down faster than the Hindenburg on Friday finishing 4th out of 4.  And why does this come as a shock?  There wasn’t overwhelming public support for hosting  the Olympics.   45% of Chicagoans believed that with the recent economic downturn,Chicago’s and Illinois’ [...]

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90 Days Until Christmas…

September 25, 2009

Television shopping networks are promoting the Holiday season as a way to recover from a lackluster Fall season, which was promoted early to recover from a disappointing Back-To-School promos, which were advertised in early summer to boost poor Summer Sales.  Recovery?  Maybe for the big wigs sitting behind their corporate desks while patting their lobbyists [...]

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“There Is No Cause For Alarm If Proper Precautions Are Observed.” Rupert Blue, U.S. Surgeon General 1918. Threat of [H1N1] “Cause for Concern, But Not Alarm.” Barack Obama, U.S. President, 2009.

September 24, 2009

J.M. Barry, (2009) writing in Nature [459: 324-5] on Pandemics: Avoiding The Mistakes of 1918 lists as a major mistake  by the government in addressing the 1918 pandemic was the communication strategy of reassurance.  J.M. Barry points out that in 1918  “This communication strategy of either reassurance or silence had its effect. Its effect was [...]

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Jack Bauer Need Not Apply To Obama’s CIA

September 19, 2009

There are so many things wrong with the current investigation  launched by Attorney General Eric Holder into the activities of the CIA following 9/11 that it is difficult to know where to begin.  First of all, I don’t know if you can be politically correct when you are in a state of war and it is even more [...]

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The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind

September 18, 2009

The death of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary marks ,once again, for many of us baby boomers, the passing of an era when citizens disenfranchised from involvement in the political system, organized en masse to change their government’s wrongheaded policy and course of action. You may ask yourself why we note the passing [...]

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