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...ethical quandary: If the U.S. faced a deadly flu pandemic with only a limited supply of vaccine, who should get treated? Federal guidelines--and conventional wisdom--give priority to health-care workers, the youngest, the frail and the elderly. But Minnesota is the first state to suggest otherwise. A panel including government officials, doctors and ethicists concluded that inoculations should be given first to key workers like police and nurses, then to those who would respond best to treatment--healthy 15-to-40-year-olds, not infants or seniors. "A worst-case scenario poses the hardest questions," says panelist Karen...
...says spokesperson Christina Pearson, HHS was scrambling to sign up 38 million seniors for the new prescription drug program and Leavitt was racing around the country to educate them on the benefit and solve problems with enrollment, as well as "jump-starting" community programs to prepare for a possible flu pandemic. "The use of leased aircraft," she argues, "was the most effective - and often the only - way to accomplish these important national priorities within the compacted time frame available...
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) are conducting a survey that will determine whether Americans will comply with the government’s proposed non-pharmaceutical contingency plan for a flu pandemic. The study comes on the heels of a government proposal to use primitive measures to control a killer flu outbreak until a vaccine and treatment drugs are available. But HSPH experts say that the results of the study are still up in the air. “I don’t think anyone can predict the outcome,” HSPH Professor of Health...
...vaccines are ordered to guard against the potential threat from avian influenza instead of getting packages of rehydration solution costing just 6? a liter to those at risk of dying from diarrhea elsewhere. But far more children die from diarrhea every day than have ever died from avian flu...
...working on improving flu vaccination efforts, supporting employer-based vaccine programs, as well as college campus campaigns to get as many people as possible vaccinated before the worst of the winter weather hits. Getting vaccinated isn't a guarantee that you will fend off a bout with the flu, but it's a smart insurance policy against those aches and fever...