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Unplugged: H1N1 Cases Overestimated?

October 21, 2009 10:28 AM

In a months long CBS News investigation, state-by-state results of tests for H1N1 found that most cases were negative. The Wall Street Journal's Alicia Mundy and Politico's Fred Barbash spoke with Sharyl Attkisson about these startling findings.

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by bird0616 November 29, 2009 3:09 PM EST
It is ridiculous that this is being talked about NOWHERE. I began searching the internet within days of this being posted/aired. Only a few natural healing sites picked it up - no major media source. How is it possible that people don't want to understand the numbers? On a related note, as a pregnant mom of a 2 year old, I reached out to the CDC to get numbers on deaths/complications related to seasonal flu in any given year, so I could compare them to H1N1 and make an informed decision on getting the shot. They DO NOT even track flu in pregnant women so there is no benchmark against which to measure current death rates or complications from H1N1 to the complications pregnant women face EACH YEAR from flu in general. So how can the CDC be screaming about pregnant women getting this shot when it has not even been tested and they can't even compare anything to a typical flu year? I didn't get the shot and think our society is getting dummed down and acting out of fear. So disappointing and scary.
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by instagasm November 6, 2009 4:40 PM EST
why isnt our news covering the possible pneumonic plague thats killing thousands in the ukraine,india and china???? this is going to make its way to the US and we're not even being told about it!
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by arynix October 29, 2009 3:22 PM EDT
"Why haven't other news organizations picked this up?" asks anonuser2010. Mainstream media is not impartial to the current administration because they are duped, and possibly paid off. I applaud CBS for taking a step out onto what may prove to be a shaky branch, and I hope they don't get treated like Fox News.
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by SkepticalMom October 27, 2009 2:36 PM EDT
No, they don't have stock, they own the patents. The NIH, a division of U.S. HHS, co-owns the patents underlying the process by which virus is grown and extracted using green monkey cell tissue culture. They license that technology to the pharma companies, which pay them licensing fees and then royalties on the profits. FDA gives fast-track approval to these vaccines, then the other branch of HHS, the CDC, recommends the vaccines to the public and sets about to bang the gong of fear. Oh, and coincidentally, Congress, HHS and DHS have made laws and declarations that indemnify the manufacturers and anyone who is associated with distributing or administering the vaccines from all liability in the even the vaccines maim or kill people. Nice work if you can get it.
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by anonuser2010 October 25, 2009 8:21 AM EDT
Great reporting, CBS!

Why haven't other news organizations picked this up? And why isn't the clip displayed more prominently on CBS' home page?

I don't go for conspiracy theories, but I've got to say I'm truly shocked that the CDC doesn't seem to WANT to know how many cases of H1N1 are really out there. Hmm, now why would that be? Let's see...could somebody have stock in Novartis, Medimmune, Astra-Zeneca?
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