swine flu kills 11 more children

[hater]

wonder if those redneck parents still following Beck and Limbaughs advice to not get the vaccine :rolleyes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091016/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu

WASHINGTON – The swine flu is causing an unprecedented amount of illness for so early in the fall — and federal health officials said Friday that 11 more children have died in the past week.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about half of the child deaths since September have been among teenagers.

And overall for the country, deaths from pneumonia and flu-like illnesses have passed what CDC considers an epidemic level. About 6 percent of all doctor visits are for flu-like illnesses, levels not normally seen until later in the fall.

The CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat (SHU'-kit) says, "These are very sobering statistics."

[hater]

http://mediamatters.org/research/200910070043

Beck, Limbaugh fomenting fear about H1N1 vaccine
October 07, 2009 10:25 pm ET — 36 Comments
In recent days, both Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have suggested that the H1N1 flu vaccine may be unsafe and questioned the Obama administration's recommendation that Americans get vaccinated, with Limbaugh asserting that "[y]ou'll be healthier" if you don't believe what the government says and Beck suggesting that the vaccine may be "deadly." However, health experts have repeatedly stated that the vaccine is a safe and necessary tool to combat the virus, and that, in CDC chief Thomas Frieden's words, "This flu vaccine is made as flu vaccine is made each year, by the same companies, in the same production facilities, with the same procedures, with the same safety safeguards" and "[t]hat enables us to have a high degree of confidence in the safety of the vaccine."

[Winehole23]

Wash hands frequently; don't touch your face.

[SnakeBoy]

http://mediamatters.org/research/200910070043

Beck, Limbaugh fomenting fear about H1N1 vaccine
October 07, 2009 10:25 pm ET — 36 Comments
In recent days, both Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have suggested that the H1N1 flu vaccine may be unsafe and questioned the Obama administration's recommendation that Americans get vaccinated, with Limbaugh asserting that "[y]ou'll be healthier" if you don't believe what the government says and Beck suggesting that the vaccine may be "deadly." However, health experts have repeatedly stated that the vaccine is a safe and necessary tool to combat the virus, and that, in CDC chief Thomas Frieden's words, "This flu vaccine is made as flu vaccine is made each year, by the same companies, in the same production facilities, with the same procedures, with the same safety safeguards" and "[t]hat enables us to have a high degree of confidence in the safety of the vaccine."

I like the way they quote Frieden's entire statement yet with Beck and Rush they only quote a few words out of context and then paraphrase what they really meant. That's good journalism.

[SnakeBoy]

Beck said "deadly", that's terrible! Well except if he was talking about cobras.