Is There Enough H1N1 Vaccine To Go Around?

CVS' Chief Medical Officer Talks About Vaccine Supplies And H1N1 Safety

(CBS)  There's an update on the H1N1 vaccine. Is theres enough vaccine to go around?

CVS Chief Medical Officer Dr. Troyen Brennan stopped by The Early Show Tuesday to talk about flu vaccine supplies, and his take on the H1N1 vaccine.

"We were out here, you had your big van and people were getting vaccinations for the regular seasonal flu a couple of weeks ago. What has been the response before we get H1N1 for the seasonal flu in, because I'm just guessing a lot of people are showing up for those shots?" co-anchor Harry Smith asked.

"There has been a tremendous response to the seasonal flu this year," Dr. Brennan said. "And a lot more people are getting vaccinated. We're seeing people getting vaccinated at much greater rates."

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Asked if they have enough vaccine for the seasonal flu, Brennan said, "There are spot shortages everywhere but we're still obtaining vaccine and we still have vaccine in our stores."

Asked if there will be enough H1N1 vaccine to go around, which is just now beginning to come online, Brennan said, "We do believe there will be enough. The government's been very careful in terms of the amount of H1N1 it's ordered and that's coming online right now. It goes from the federal government out to the state health departments and then the state health departments all decide how they'll distribute it from there."

But you feel confident there will be enough of that?" Smith asked.

"We believe so. We think there will be quite a bit H1N1," Brennan said.

Addressing safety concerns about the H1N1 vaccine, Brennan told Smith, "We think it's very safe. We think it's as safe as all the seasonal flu vaccines are. It's manufactured in the same way, to the same specifications and with all the same safety rules in place, so we believe the H1N1 vaccine is safe."

Where is going to be the best place to get it?

"Well, there's going to be a lot of different places to get it," Brennan said. " And it is going to vary somewhat from state to state. One thing that people can do and really should start doing this week in order to find out where they can get the H1N1 vaccine is to check flu.gov. There's a map there and you can click on your state and it will take you right to the state's Web site that tells you where the vaccine are will be available."

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bonjour
on dirait que la satisfaction n'est pas de ce monde est pour cause..
aprés l'angoisse, la panique et la peur des premiers casq...succédera l'étape des "pour qui" et "pourqoui", ensuite l'étape de sensibilisation, a cette derniére celle des questions "vacciner" ou pas "vacciner", et maintenant que les gens sont convaincus qu'ils faut se faire vacciner, voila une autre étape...est si on manquait de vaccins,??
c'est du n'importe quoi,..il fallait y penser avant de commencer la campagne et quand il faut y aller il faut y aller "H1N1-MANIA " quand tu nous tiens..vivemement le bout du tunnel...au revoir

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A friend?s son was recently in the hospital in a major metropolitan city with appendicitis, and asked the nurse how many cases of swine flu had been seen at the hospital, and was shocked to hear ?none.? Over the next several days she asked the different nurses how many cases and each nurse confirmed that there had been no cases. Since all we have heard over the past few months has been that there is a raging epidemic and that it is having a more serious effect on children, she was very interested to hear there had been no hospitalizations. On her last day at the hospital, the nurse seemed in a hurry to get them out of the room, and when asked why, the nurse said there were a lot of very sick children. When asked what they were sick with, the nurse replied ?asthma.?

I recalled reading about two studies that were never written about in any major newspaper in the US, but which were very significant. One, ?Childhood asthma is reduced by half when the first dose of diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT) is delayed by more than 2 months vs given during the recommended period, according to the results of a retrospective longitudinal study reported in the March issue of the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology.? This is an extremely important study in light of the chronic, life threatening and expensive nature of asthma. Second, from ?ScienceDaily:
Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests.? Not only is the flu vaccine not preventing cases of flu in asthma patients, it is associated with vaccinated asthmatics being more likely to be hospitalized than asthmatics who did not receive the flu vaccine. Reporters, please let this be a call to you to end this propaganda campaign and report all the facts having to do with vaccination. These two studies paint a very clear picture about the relationship between vaccination and chronic illness, and there are many other studies, which can be easily found with a few strokes of a keyboard.

According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America:
* Asthma accounts for one-quarter of all emergency room visits in the U.S. each year, with 2 million emergency room visits. [7] (This epidemic dwarfs the swine flu epidemic)
* Each year, asthma accounts for more than 10 million outpatient visits and 500,000 hospitalizations. [8]
* The average length of stay (LOS) for asthma hospitalizations is 3 days. [9]
* Nearly half (44%) of all asthma hospitalizations are for children. [10]
* Asthma is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization children. [11]
* Asthma is the #1 cause of school absenteeism among children accounting for more than 14 million total missed days of school. [12]
* African Americans are three times more likely to be hospitalized from asthma. [13]


* Each day 11 Americans die from asthma. There are more than 4,000 deaths due to asthma each year, many of which are avoidable with proper treatment and care. In addition, asthma is indicated as ?contributing factor? for nearly 7,000 other deaths each year. [14]
* Since 1980 asthma death rates overall have increased more than 50% among all genders, age groups and ethnic groups. The death rate for children under 19 years old has increased by nearly 80% percent since 1980. [15] (22 doses of childhood vaccines recommended from birth to age 6 in 1983 ? 48 doses of childhood vaccines by the age of 6 recommended in 2009 ? not including swine flu vaccine)
* More females die of asthma than males, and women account for nearly 65% of asthma deaths overall. [16]
* African Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma. African American Women have the highest asthma mortality rate of all groups, more than 2.5 times higher than Caucasian women. [17]

There is no action without an equal and opposite reaction. In the effort to prevent all experience with infectious disease, children are becoming immunologically and neurologically poisoned and have developed high rates of chronic illness and disability. Reporters, you owe it to this and future generations, to report the facts, not the hype.