Ever since I was doing my clinical rotation at Amherst College I've known in the back of my head that the swine flu outbreak was going to be bad. The father of a lacrosse player there works for Infectious Disease Control in Boston and he drove out to Amherst late one night to give his son 3 different kinds of shots that, at the time, could help with the swine flu.
According to the Center for Disease Control there have been 22 million cases of swine flu and more than 4000 deaths due to swine flu. Interestingly enough, in China where there population is exploding, they have only suffered 70,000 cases and only 53 deaths! China has also staged a massive vaccination effort in trying to vaccinate 1.5 million people per day and hopefully reach 90 million people by the end of the year. This doesn't help with Americans because we can barely get 42 million doses of the vaccine.
After going to Florida over the weekend I found it ironic that I came across this article from Disney World. Disney has decided to install hand sanitizer dispensers around their parks. When I thought about it I actually do remember seeing hand sanitizer boxes all over the place down there and these boxes were not there when I went down back in May.
I feel like our government needs to step up and do something about this outbreak. Our country is supposed to have one of the top health cares in the world but yet we have over 4,000 deaths from swine flu and can't provide our country with vaccinations to stop these deaths from occuring. In my eyes, our country is pathetic and needs to do something about it.
http://www.charter.net/news/read.php?id=16023045&ps=1019&cat=&cps=0&lang=en
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