Who should get the bird flu vaccine?

The bird flu is coming!

Those of us with bunkers need to go underground now to escape contamination but there is a slight hope for those poor suckers who need to continue out and about in the world.

They are developing vaccines and in the U.S. they are stockpiling the vaccine but there won't be enough to go around. So the big question is who should get it?

In the most optimistic scenario, the stockpile due by February might be diluted to cover 120 million people out of a U.S. population of 298 million. In the worst case, scientists said, the vaccine being manufactured now would immunize only 4 million people, each of whom would need two shots a month apart.

About a quarter of the stockpile is reserved for the pentagon and I'm OK with that and I think emergency personnel, health personnel, and critical leaders should also be on the list, but who gets to decide who is critical?

Remember last year when we ran short of supplies? The president got a flu shot -- and he should most definitely -- but so did congress. What a waste! Frankly when the nation is in crisis congress is nothing but a big waste of air -- in fact they are when we aren't in crisis. So why do they get a priority?

So who do you think should get the vaccine and who shouldn't?

 

Bah.. they said that a while ago(september or/and october).. I've never had some flue in my whole life and ain't afraid of getting it.

 

Healthcare workers and doctors for starters.

latehorn, you're green! Congrats!

 

Maybe vaccinating the poultry workers would stop the thing?

 

I don't think the flu spreads between humans very well...yet.

 

Hey, do not think about flu as media wants. Here was really "time before panic". Newspapers, tv, radio.. doctors, alert centers.. People even walk with masks on faces. Gov here buy vaccines. First will get doctors on work in flu areas, second, people who have bird flu infected animals, and then rest with priority levels in infected areas..


Just little try to write somehing that could, maybe, little help you

 

You should be. There is a 50% chance of dying if you contract bird flu. That means for every person who contracts it, half of them will die. Half a football stadium, half the people in the train, half the people on the street ...

 

Watched the guy who wrote the "The Hot Zone" on tv last night talking about this momentarily and a few other cheery things.

OP- how do you create a vaccine for the unknown? Gotta know how the disease may ultimately evolve, before one can react to it. Knock wood it aint contagious YET.

Big brother will protect us. Govt seems to prepare pretty well for the future IMHO. Evololution is just a theory-ya dig?

 

The flu affects children and seniors mostly, so I would immunize the children and let the rest of the population fight it off naturally.

 

Not in all cases. The 1918 Spanish Flu (the last big worldwide pandemic like the bird flu will be) mostly killed 20-40 year olds and spared children/elders.

Who knows.. maybe this flu is less deadly in different races of people? Maybe it's worse.

How are they going to make a "vaccine" thats going to save people before the flu strain is even mutated? They're making it to vaccinate against the CURRENT flu strains which aren't going to be the deadly killer.. it has to mutate first and for all we know will be completely immune to the vaccine!

 

I think all the vaccine should be injected into one person. It should be quite fun. Who recons he will go orange and lose all the hair?

 

The news said that scientists determined the virus has a much bigger impact on seniors and children, that's why I would save the children.