12 October 2014 (01:56 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/20 Mehr 1393/19 Jia-Xu 4712
North Carolina reporting their first flu death. Department of Health and Human Services would only say it was a Wake County elementary school aged child.
A couple of days ago I wrote how the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated there were hundreds of millions of vaccine doses already shipped out, or under production. Now pediatricians are demanding to know where they are.
“Several companies experienced slower yields than expected. Their flu vaccine is being produced, but it’s coming out slower than anticipated. Deliveries are a little bit behind schedule but they anticipate getting most of it out by the end of October, when most was promised by mid-September.”-Andy Pavia, University of Utah
“This year they’re having trouble developing enough to get the flu vaccine supply going as early as they want. We’re told our supply will be delayed by two weeks to a month, but we really don’t know when we’ll get it!”-Greg Finn, Blue Fish Pediatrics, Missouri
A Missouri TV news report told its audience that this year’s influenza is “as dangerous as it has ever been”, but gave no explanation or citation, except for “Doctors say”.
Perhaps the reports of lack of vaccines and unsubstantiated reports that influenza will be worse than ever is the cause for the Muskingum County fairgrounds, in Ohio, being swamped by paranoids trying out the new ‘drive thru’ vaccination station.
The Zanesville-Muskingum County Health Department says at least 19-hundred people showed up for the one day free flu shot event. But it wasn’t just a free drive thru flu shot event, it was also a covert biological disaster training event!
Health officials say the free flu shot event was done with the cooperation of several different organizations, in an attempt to prepare for a future ‘health’ event that would require such cooperation.
Riverton, Wyoming, held a similar drive thru vaccination event: “I come here every year and let them shoot me.”-Norma Tatman
Washington’s WSU Spokane’s College of Pharmacy, along with Walgreens, conducted a free vaccination day as well. About 300 vaccinations were administered.
In Utah, a lawsuit charges that five Parkway Elementary teachers were given insulin shots instead of flu shots last month. Yes, two teachers ended up in the hospital, three others were sick!
School officials say the shots were offered through the school’s health insurance provider. The school nurse who administered the shots has resigned.
Just because the official flu season in the U.S. is from October to May doesn’t mean it goes away during summer. The U.S. CDC admitted there were influenza cases in at least 47 U.S. states during summer. However, the CDC doesn’t post summer flu cases on its influenza tracking site. Also keep in mind that any info the CDC posts on its flu “surveillance” site during flu ‘season’ is at least one week old.
Influenza has already killed two people in Idaho!