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Accounts of his latest expedition in March were published in 50 U.S. newspapers and broadcast to schoolchildren in 15 other nations, including China, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, and Argentina...
...press secretary Robert Gibbs, the realization came in early September, when the New York Times ran a front-page story about the bubbling parental outrage over President Obama's plan to address schoolchildren - even though the benign contents of the speech were not yet public. "You had to be like, 'Wait a minute,'" says Gibbs. "This thing has become a three-ring circus." (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...recently as August, Halderman was the featured speaker at the Nashville conference of National Information Officers Association, a group that represents first responders and public safety information officers. In 2006, he directed Three Days in September, a Julia Roberts-narrated documentary about the botched rescue of schoolchildren in Beslan, Russia, who were being held hostage by Chechen rebels. It was nominated for an Emmy and won an Edward R. Murrow award...
...problem is that, according to the model, vaccinations would have to begin by mid-September - but the first batch of the vaccine isn't due until October. "Clearly the best strategy is to vaccinate schoolchildren first," said Longini. "The problem is the supply of the vaccine." That means the disease could begin to spread, and quickly, before protection from vaccinations could take hold...
...Science study also provided the first estimate of the person-to-person transmissibility of H1N1. The researchers calculate that every person infected by the virus will go on to infect 1.3 to 1.7 other people on average. (That number will probably be higher for schoolchildren - in one outbreak at a private school in New York City in the spring, each sick student infected 2.4 classmates.) As flus go, that makes H1N1 more transmissible than most - on par with the moderate 1957 Asian flu pandemic - which makes it particularly important to get a large chunk of the population vaccinated early...