Only a few months ago, the H1N1 "swine flu" vaccine was in short supply and there was controversy when people were skipping others who were ahead of them in the vaccine priority queue. Now that the H1N1 hype and paranoia has died down, the millions of vaccine dosages are rotting on shelves around the country and the world with the pharmaceutical companies set to lose millions, if not billions of dollars. Big pharma cannot afford to take a loss on the vaccine investments it made when it appeared that 200+ million people in the U.S. would be getting the vaccine.I guess if the powers-that-be cannot scare people to get the vaccine, then they will make it super convenient, easy and free to get. What's next, will the vaccinators deliver the vaccine to your door in thirty (30) minutes or less like a deep dish pizza? Some in Canada have even proposed setting up mobile vaccine centers outside of nightclubs and pubs.
Not to be outdone, if you live in the Yay Arena (Bay Area), specifically in Oaktown 3-5-7 (Oakland) and ride the BART system, then you had a chance today to get a FREE H1N1 "swine flu" vaccine while traveling on your evening commute.
Commuters traveling through downtown Oakland on BART today will have a chance to receive a free H1N1 flu shot while also helping to test the county's emergency readiness plan in case of a health crisis.
The Alameda County Public Health Department and BART are teaming for what is thought to be a first of its kind real-time, mass vaccination on a regional transit system. The event will be held beginning at 3 p.m. at the City Center-12th Street station in Oakland.
The mass vaccination serves two purposes. First, it will help health officials evaluate their ability to coordinate a scaled emergency response for a public health crisis that requires medical treatment of the general public, such as mass vaccination against pandemic. Second, it will serve as a means to dispense free swine flu shots to those who have yet to receive one through their medical provider or other means.
Source: The Oakland Tribune
2 comments:
I'm a high school student and had a severe reaction right afterward. I started to break out and went down to my school nurse and she asked if my chest was tight and if my throat was hurting and it was so she checked my pulse and it was 116 then she listened to my chest and then all of a sudden the paramedics arrived and they put me on a stretcher and away i went. When i reached the hospital my bp was 150/90 and my pulse was 146! my throat started to close so they gave me all of these shots and it was just AWFUL!
do u know what all could be in the shot i was allergic to?
i'm not allergic to eggs.
@Courtney:
There are numerous ingredients in the H1N1 vaccines that are given here in the U.S. Do you know which specific H1N1 vaccine you were given? Currently, I believe that four (4) companies produce H1N1 vaccines in the United States, so the ingredients will depend on which brand you received.
I have posted several articles that list some of the ingredients that are in these vaccines. I will also post the FDA links to the package inserts, so you can read the official ingredients and check out the links on those pages.
http://remixxworld.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-ingredients-are-in-h1n1-swine-flu.html
http://remixxworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/h1n1-swine-flu-vaccine-package-inserts.html
Each of the vaccines contains deactivated H1N1 virus, so there can be potential reactions to the inactivated virus. These vaccines are NOT supposed to contain squalene adjuvants as the vaccines do in Europe. Squalene adjuvants are linked to numerous vaccine reactions.
If it was a multi-dose vaccine, then it could have also contained thimerosal which is a preservative that is made from mercury. Mercury is a deadly neurotoxin element.
Here are the ingredients from one such vaccine:
Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine is formulated to contain 15 mcg HA per 0.5 mL dose of influenza A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)v-like virus.
The single-dose formulation is preservative-free; thimerosal, a mercury derivative, is not used in the manufacturing process for this formulation. The multi-dose formulation contains thimerosal, added as a preservative; each 0.5 mL dose contains 24.5 mcg of mercury.
A single 0.5 mL dose of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine contains sodium chloride (4.1 mg), monobasic sodium phosphate (80 mcg), dibasic sodium phosphate (300 mcg), monobasic potassium phosphate (20 mcg), potassium chloride (20 mcg), and calcium chloride (1.5 mcg). From the manufacturing process, each dose may also contain residual amounts of sodium taurodeoxycholate (≤ 10 ppm), ovalbumin (≤ 1 mcg), neomycin sulfate (≤ 0.2 picograms [pg]), polymyxin B (≤ 0.03 pg), and beta-propiolactone.
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