Word: sebelius
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...That doesn't mean, however, that anyone will get an unproven vaccine. The vials will stay right where they are until the testing is completed--and for now, those trials are going well. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, also speaking at the workshop, noted that "So far there are no red flags. I think we are on target for mid-October to have the vaccine coming off the production lines...
...this big news? What started the flurry was a comment on CNN's State of the Union by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that a government-run plan is "not the essential element" of the Obama Administration's drive to overhaul the country's health-care system. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs echoed that point on CBS's Face the Nation, where he said that Obama's "bottom line" is that there should be "choice and competition in the insurance market." Hardly a new development, considering that the White House and the President have been sounding pretty...
...schools to not shut down in most cases. "If there are a handful of [flu] cases in a school, the real goal is to keep the school open," Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters at a press conference also attended by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden...
...monitoring the march of H1N1 through the southern hemisphere, in Australia and in South America as well as in the U.S. So far, data show that the virus is having about the same health impact as seasonal flu, which still causes about 30,000 deaths each year. And, as Sebelius noted, "Typically parents do not keep their children home if their classmates come down with the flu." That's worth remembering this fall, as the school year gets under...
...Mobilization Sebelius says the most accurate modeling for the current virus is likely to be found in the 1957 flu epidemic. Like H1N1, that flu began early in the year on foreign soil and was relatively quiet in the summer. Once school reconvened, however, it surged. As the disease peaked in October - between the launch of Sputnik and the release of the movie Jailhouse Rock - 43% of Manhattan students and 11% of New York City teachers reported absent from school in a single day. By the time it dissipated, about 1 in 4 Americans had taken ill from the disease...