After the confusion amplifiers, stick a baffled sheep into the doctor's office. The doctor wears the almighty lab coat. The doctor has 6 large diplomas plastered all over his wall. The doctor looks at the sheep condescendingly with an eyebrow slightly raised if the standard indoctornation is questioned. The doctor is as fucking sure of himself as the sheep is unsure of himself. The sheep is holding the screaming wiggling two year old who is adding more confusion in his ear and feels embarrassed that Junior can't behave in public.If the sheep asks one question, the doctor will bombard the sheep with smart sounding lingo of "the H1N1 vaccine is an active inoculation, a simple lyophilized preparation for percutaneous scarification; A droplet of the inoculation is administered by the percutaneous route using a jab of a bifurcated needle. H1N1 should not be injected by the intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, or
intravenous route."The doctor hands the sheep a free pamphlet with smiling multicultural people plastered all over it who already received the shot with the standard talking point repeated over and over and over "the shot is safe and effective" "safe and effective" "safe and effective"
the disease is deadly deadly deadly death dying danger brain damage pneumonia drowning deathdeathdeath; there is NO EVIDENCe NO evidence no none zilch evidence that the shot is harmful. the side effects simply include a headache and sore arm in 1 out of 10 cases. The side effect of not taking the shot is danger disease death embarassment confusion.If the sheep asks about the mercury in the shot, the doctor will quickly offer him the special complimentary thimerosal free version of the shot or have 15 quickly delivered talking points to fire at him. Since the doctor went out of his way to get that thimerosal free shot, it would look ungracious of the sheep to back out now. After all, the doctor's spent 20 minutes personally with Sheep and Junior, talking nice to Junior, measuring Junior, looking in Junior's ears and eyes, telling Sheep that Junior's cute.
If the sheep refuses the shot, the doctor will make him sign a vaccine refusal form stating that "sheep has been informed of the risks and acknowledges them and signs away the doctor's liability". The doctor will embarrass sheep telling him that he doesn't accept the shots, the doctor will have to break off the fiduciary relationship and not treat sheep anymore. -- JSlasher
By MIKE STOBBE (AP) – 1 hour ago
ATLANTA — Swine flu was four times more likely to send blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than whites, according to a study in Chicago that offers one of the first looks at how the virus has affected different racial groups.
The report echoes some unpublished information from Boston that found three out of four Bostonians hospitalized from swine flu were black or Hispanic.
The cause for the difference is probably not genetic, health officials said. More likely, it's because blacks and Hispanics suffer disproportionately from asthma, diabetes and other health problems that make people more vulnerable to the flu.
It's not clear if a racial or ethnic difference will hold up when more complete national data is available, one federal health official said. The findings are based on fairly small numbers of cases from the early days of the pandemic.
"We don't have anything definitive to say one group is more affected than another," said Dr. Daniel Jernigan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Chicago findings, released Thursday, are believed to be the first published study to detail a racial or ethnic breakdown of swine flu's impact.
Researchers looked at more than 1,500 lab-confirmed swine flu cases reported to the Chicago Department of Public Health from late April through late July.
Blacks with swine flu were hospitalized at a rate of 9 per 100,000, and Hispanics at a rate of 8 per 100,000. For whites, the rate was 2 per 100,000, the study found.
Earlier this month, Boston health officials released some unpublished information that found three out of four Bostonians hospitalized with swine flu were black or Hispanic.
"It's very disturbing," said Barbara Ferrer of the Boston Public Health Commission, speaking about the higher rates of minority swine flu hospitalizations.
"But intuitively it's understandable, because we have tremendous inequities in most areas of health," said Ferrer, the agency's executive director.
Also, experts noted that the Chicago and Boston data represent limited information from only two cities and only the first two or three months of the pandemic. The unpredictable manner of swine flu outbreaks means some parts of the city were hit before others — a sequence that may have little to do with race.
"I think it reflected more the neighborhoods the disease was first going through," said Jernigan, a CDC flu expert.
This fall, the government will be doing national surveys to better track swine flu trends. That should provide more reliable information about how the virus is affecting different groups of people, he said.
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