This is from an article last month - denouncing the President's ignorance regarding swine flu, as well as the many contradictions coming from the White House and CDC regarding its actual risk - which this doctor points out as being mush less than the hype...
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Obama Waffles on Swine Flu Vaccine for First FamilyIn one of his best (or worst) sidestepping of a direct question President Obama avoided a direct answer to whether or not he and his family would be vaccinated against Swine flu.
The President’s answer also shows both his ignorance and knowledge about certain aspects of the vaccine and the Swine flu itself.
In the actual video of his interview with CNN’s John King the President mistakenly asserted that his children were not in the first line of priority recipients for the largely untested vaccine. He stated that children with neurological conditions were first priority and that his children would come in after that. Unfortunately the text of the story posted on CNN does not add the caveat about neurological disorders and in an obvious error uses children in general as in the first line of recipients. Watch the video.
What President Obama is referring to is a little known study released by the CDC that reports on the deaths of 36 children attributable to complications from the Swine flu. The majority of those deaths occurred in children with very significant neurodevelopmental disorders.
According to the data some of these children also had chronic pulmonary disorders and some were obese. In fact, most of the children who died had multiple, severe, chronic health conditions. So the majority of these children were not normal healthy children but instead had neurological, neurodevelopmental and pulmonary disorders and ended up with complications from the H1N1 flu and ultimately died from these complications.
Interestingly, the CDC found that 13 (52%) of the children who died had received at least 1 dose of the 2008--09 seasonal flu vaccine including 11 children who had these high-risk medical conditions. Of further interest is that 15 of those who died and who had chronic medical conditions had also received antiviral treatment. What role, if any, these two factors had in the deaths was not discussed in the CDC report.
If the President of the United States is aware of what the real high risk groups are why hasn’t the CDC changed their recommendations?
Currently the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recommended that target groups for vaccination include:
Pregnant women,
People who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age, healthcare and emergency medical services personnel,
Persons between the ages of 6 months and 24 years old,
People ages of 25 through 64 years of age who are at higher risk for 2009 H1N1 because of chronic health disorders or compromised immune systems, or those who have medical conditions that pout them at higher risk for influenza related complications.
President Obama was quick to point out that he would ask his HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and his CDC Director Thomas Frieden to instruct him on what to do and that he would follow their recommendations. Well, it appears he is getting different advice than the rest of the country.
While most of the media that picked up on the story chose to go with an Everyman slant that the President and the First Family would “wait in line like everyone else” to get their shots, it really appears they are trying to go to the back of that line.
While the President suggested that he was probably far down the line of recipients, perhaps he should give Sebelius and Frieden another call and remind them that he is a long time smoker and that smokers fall into the category of vulnerability.
In fact, data shows this increased vulnerability resides in former smokers as well.
After weeks, indeed months, of increasingly conflicting information about the Swine flu and the vaccine this most recent display by the President does nothing to instill any confidence that anyone knows what the hell they are talking about. Just a few weeks ago Frieden (who the president says he will listen to when told what to do on the flu) came out in complete disagreement with the President’s own report on the Swine flu and its potential to wreak havoc. Frieden and Sellius disputed the White House’s notion that 90,000 people were going to die from it.
The only way the President is going to be able to redeem himself on this one is to cut to the front of the line, roll up his sleeves and get his two Swine flu shots. While he’s at it he should also get the regular seasonal flu shot at the same time. His daughters, of course should be right in front of him in that line according to the CDC.
This is going to be an interesting flu season for sure.
RESEARCHUPDATE.MCCOYPRESS.NET: Obama Waffles on Swine Flu Vaccine for First Family
Don't be stupid. The shot is actually something that will make everyone attracted to same sex partners...in just a decade or so there will be no reproduction and the USA will finally be extinct!!!
