CBS Determines That CDC Can Not Provide Accurate H1N1 Stats

By Kim Stagliano

CBS News asks CDC for hard stats on H1N1 numbers: "Your office has stopped communicating with us...."   Is anyone at CDC counting actual H1N1 case numbers to back up the statements that we have a medical epidemic?  Read the full article at CBS News HERE.

...If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu.

In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation.

The ramifications of this finding are important. According to the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and Britain's National Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you're immune from future outbreaks of the same virus. Those who think they've had H1N1 flu -- but haven't -- might mistakenly presume they're immune. As a result, they might skip taking a vaccine that could help them, and expose themselves to others with H1N1 flu under the mistaken belief they won't catch it. Parents might not keep sick children home from school, mistakenly believing they've already had H1N1 flu.

Here's what my children's school district sent home yesterday as part of a letter about H1N1 requesting hand washing, that students who are sick remain home for 3-5 days and to inform us they are stepping up disinfection within the school:

Since patient testing will not be routinely recommended for H1N1 (swine flu), we cannot accurately communicate specific school or class information regarding potential cases.  The school nurses will continue to work with the Health District if there is a sudden or unusual increase of illness in a school or classroom.

Why aren't doctors and hospitals testing every single case to make sure our citizens are protected and know whether or not they've contracted this virus? And is the insurance industry involved in this decision?

Kim Stagliano is Managing Editor of Age of Autism, mother of three daughters with autism and the author of All I Can Handle. I'm No Mother Teresa. due Fall 2010. She blogs at Kim Stagliano and for Huffington Post.

Comments

[mom4truth]

I love the illustration for this article! Maybe that should be AoA's next T-shirt give-away. The CDC-T!

[Sarah]

Why doesn't this surprise me??

This H1N1 campaign is beginning to resemble a Three Stooges episode except it's not that funny...first all media frenzy, then we're left waiting and waiting for the vaccine to arrive but noone seems to knows why it's being delayed, now we're being told CDC can't provide accurate numbers... makes me wonder if they even know what's in the shot? Did they even bother to read the insert?
Helloo CDC... read the insert!!

Lets see what the next mix up is...

If the public didn't have confidence in the gov't before then than sure as s--t not going to have confidence now

[Concerned Professional]

They are confusing people.Infections will rise once they start immunizing with their live vaccines. How we will know if the illness or death caused by the vaccine if there is no follow up or no reporting to Vaers.Do we have enough Virologist to check the strains? Get three weeks of grocery,water,emergency supplies,meds- just in case you need to stay home for a while.

[Beth]

Let's hope more reporters at more news outlets have the chops to dig into this blockbuster story about how the CDC is failing the American public big time with H1N1.

Is everything we've read about it a complete hoax? Someone on CNBC called it "SwineFluK" - like Y2K - much ado about nothing.

Really hope these health agencies who are so deep in pharma's pockets are exposed huge over this fraud.

[vitamine]

Hello
Hay you have given good information about H1N1.Taht news is really strange.People should really take care from this virus.Thank you very much for sharing this with us.

[Rob]

By not counting cases they can sell more vaccines.

According to the article, "the CDC advises those who were told they had H1N1 to get vaccinated unless they had lab confirmation." AND "Persons who are uncertain about how they were diagnosed should get the H1N1 vaccine."

Therefore they open the doors to give the vaccine to those who may already be immune. By not confirming positive cases, they can continue to vaccinate unnecessarily.

[DannysVoice]

If H1N1 is so pandemic most in contact w/ it would be ill...

My husband's co-worker came to work last month obviously very ill, coughing sneezing and fever. His co-workers finally convinced him go home. He had already spent 2/3rds of the day in the office and was in many shared spaces. That weekend he went to the hospital because he was so ill. He was tested and told he had H1N1. Got meds was sent home and told to stay home for 12 days so he wouldn't infect others and his kids had to stay w/ a relative. He was better after 4 days. The office was "disinfected". No other employee there has had Swine Flu.

How contagious is it?

[Pamela]

I know for a fact in Alabama and Georgia no H1N1 tests are being done. CDC has advised these states to track by symptoms or with a type A flu test. If it is positive for type A it is being counted as Swine Flu.

My friends Georgia pediatrician told her that the only way to get an actual H1N1 test done is to send it to CDC and they would only run tests on patients admitted to the hospital with very severe symptoms.

In Alabama our pediatrician told us the same and that all positive type A tests were assumed to be Swine Flu

[julie]

I'm not a doctor or scientist, just a humble RN, but don't you have to use a pretty elaborate, expensive test to identify the DNA or RNA of a specific virus? Poymerase chain reaction or Western blot or something? And we are supposed to believe that pediatricians and primary care docs are doing these elaborate tests on everybody who shows up with a cold?

Thank god one network, CBS, is asking intelligent questions. A 60 Minutes story on the H1N1 farce, or better yet on vaccines in general is long overdue.

[Kathy Blanco]

Gatagoora, indeed, some antibioitcs do work on viruses, especially ones that rob the immune system, like stealth viruses. Seems as those kind of viruses depend on cytokines and chemokines, and antibioticss do that. My feeling is, if it is a manmade virus, then it would respond to antibiotics.

Which, makes me feel better, since our entire family is on them for lyme disease. So I think we are doing pretty good...along with VIT C and such...VIT D3 etc..