Isn't that called

[Guest guest]

In a recent interview with Reader's Digest Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of

HHS is quoted

" There are groups out there that insist that vaccines are responsible for a

variety of problems despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. We have

reached out to media outlets to try to get them to not give the views of these

people equal weight in their reporting to what science has shown and continues

to show about the safety of vaccines. "   

Isn't that called censorship?? ?

http://www.rd. com/health- slideshows/ h1n1-the- report-card/ article174741-

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H1N1: The Report Card 

 RD: You recently took part in the ribbon-cutting for a new Holly Springs,

N.C., factory that will produce cell culture-based flu vaccines as early as

2012. Do you think cell culture vaccines will help?

KS: That plant is a big deal for two reasons, not the least of which is that it

brings manufacturing capacity back to the United States. That’s a significant

step forward—we’re not so reliant on production elsewhere. During the

current epidemic, two companies had to fill orders in their own countries before

they could make the vaccines available to us. Secondly, cell-based culture

doesn’t necessarily speed the growth time, but it is more reliable. Once the

growth is there, you have yield that is much more stable than with egg-based

technology. It isn’t a silver bullet, but egg-based technology is 50 years old

and we need to get to a variety of approaches that could be used in the future.

So the investments need to continue: What are the alternative growth strategies?

What else should we be looking at?

RD: We’ve all heard about healthy people who come down with H1N1 and are dead

within a few days. Are you satisfied with the medical response to this disease?

KS: Well, the data is puzzling, and I think a bit troubling, in that we know

that about a third of the kids who have been seriously ill or died do not have

underlying health conditions. And it’s the same with 25-year-olds and up; we

don't still quite understand why those over 65 seem to have a lot of resistance

to this particular virus. I think it’s going to take a while for the

scientists to figure this out—what exactly is going on with this disease.

While there have been some recent reports that the vast majority of cases have

been relatively mild, what the scientists are quick to say is that the severe

cases are more severe than many of them have ever seen. I mean, the penetration

is more rapid, it’s more devastating, it fills the lungs. So, yes, it’s

pretty mild most of the time, but when it’s bad it’s really bad. But what

exactly it is that triggers that, we don’t know. The group that has underlying

health conditions isn’t so hard

to understand. But the group that does not have underlying health conditions

and moves from total health to a ventilator in two days, which has been the case

too many times with younger people—that, I think, still needs to be

understood.

RD: As this was being rolled out we heard about strains on public health

departments. Has that affected the government’s response?

KS: Every state in the country is dealing with fewer personnel than they would

have had if this had happened three years ago. That lack of resources means

people have had to add more duties with fewer folks. But our coordination has

worked tremendously well, and it fact we have learned a lot that will prepare us

for the future, whether for the next pandemic or for other kinds of public

health emergencies.

RD:What can be done about public mistrust of vaccines?

KS:There are groups out there that insist that vaccines are responsible for a

variety of problems despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. We have

reached out to media outlets to try to get them to not give the views of these

people equal weight in their reporting to what science has shown and continues

to show about the safety of vaccines.

RD: I’ll just close by asking if there’s something you would like to add.

KS: Well, knowing that this is going to be a February article, I think one of

our challenges is to make sure that people understand that what we saw this fall

was a second wave of H1N1. We have an opportunity to get out ahead of what

easily could be a third wave. There are lot of scientists who feel that if

we’re successful, if we continue the vaccination program into the new year and

get as many people vaccinated as possible, we really might avert what various

experts believe may be a more vicious strain in the later winter months when flu

season is really underway.

RD: So a lot of people think that it could be worse, the third wave?

KS: In some other epidemics, there was a spike and then a milder spike, and then

a big jump. And nobody knows if that might be the pattern with this virus. But

there’s a window where we’re going to have vaccine and hopefully the disease

will have peaked. And that gives us an opportunity to continue to reach out.

 

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