Ninety-three Children Dead of Flu - Majority were vaccinated!

Categories

Health

Out of 93 recent deaths of children from the flu in the U.S., 60 had been vaccinated. What kind of a protection factor does that indicate? Bad? You're right. Here is a comment from Jon Rappoport, investigative reporter, on the announcement by Lawrence Altman who comments the Centers for Disease Control's statistics in the New York Times. Read those figures closely, and you will scratch your head. One thing is turned into the exact opposite - it's called spin doctoring.

WELL, LOOKIE HERE --- FLU

JANUARY 10, 2004. Lawrence Altman, the dean of American medical writers, reports on flu stats for the NY Times. After indicating that 93 children have died from the flu this season in the US, Altman states:

"Thirty-three of the victims had not been vaccinated. The disease control agency [CDC] recommends vaccination for all healthy children 6 months and older."

Okay Altman...therefore?

Are we supposed to imagine that he doesn't see the corollary of what he just wrote?

He's brain addled?

He can't take the next logical step?

He can't push the ball with his nose one last inch?

He refuses to mention THAT, THEREFORE, 60 OF THE CHILDREN WHO DID DIE FROM THE FLU WERE VACCINATED AGAINST IT.

Hello?

Gosh o gee, if I were an editor at the NY Times, I would have blasted the headline: 60 VACCINATED CHILDREN DIE OF FLU ANYWAY.

And then I might insert a sub-head: WHOLE VACCINE CAMPAIGN CALLED INTO DOUBT.

But no.

And how many readers of the Times do you imagine caught the omission?

How many will write a letter to the paper?

Oh well, just another day in journalism hell.

How about a little interview with a mother of a child who died, who says, "WE THOUGHT OUR GIRL WAS PROTECTED AFTER SHE GOT THE SHOT, BUT THEN SHE DIED. WHAT'S GOING ON?"

How about asking the head of the CDC to comment on the fact that two-thirds of the kids who have died so far received the vaccine?

This is fake news at its best. Reverse the whole meaning of the facts.

Spin it to the wrong side.

"All those kids who got the shot died, but the CDC says vaccinate your kid."

And you thought the Jayson Blair scandal at the Times was bad? It was just a tempest in a teacup. THIS is bad. This is the kind of reporting that wouldn't even get by a bored-to-death teacher at a college journalism class. THIS is about health and illness and death.

This is madness.

Who would be the federal official to take action, to march into the CDC and start screaming? Tommy Thompson, head of Health and Human Services. Of course, Tommy was the guy back there who said there was a vial of smallpox vaccine with every American's name on it, waiting to be shot into his/her body---and a year later asserted that he was not about to get the vaccine personally because the risk was too high---and he was telling all the cabinet members to avoid taking the shot as well.

I suppose if a few thousand subscribers to the Times wrote in cancelling their subscriptions and saying why, that might jostle a few brains at the paper.

But I doubt it.

They're too busy spinning.

Way too busy.

And of course it would be entirely too much to ask how many of those kids who died were adversely affected by the vaccine. An investigation of THAT would be beyond the pale for these people.

There are cocktail parties to attend, meetings with realtors about a summer house in the Hamptons. You have to start early to line up a good place in the Hamptons.

What are the chances that a front-line medical journal will pick up on this story in an upcoming editorial? About zero.

"What are we to think when a group of children die, and two-thirds of them got the vaccine against the diseease..."

So, dear Times editor, this is my open letter to you. I suggest it is time to put Altman out to pasture. Give him a patch of grass and let him ruminate. Even if he's one of your best spinners.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

See also:

Treatment of the flu with massive doses of vitamin C

Government and the Flu: A Short History

The Fujian virus - promoting flu vaccines

Flu Mist Anyone?

Flu shots - how useful are they?

Flu vaccine a Misty promise

Looking back at the flu season, all that talk about how severe it was fades into a bland picture of hype and propaganda (March 2004):
What Ever Happened to the Flu Scare?

Here some more insightful news and comment from Jon Rappoport

BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD

JANUARY 21, 2004. I could only stand watching Bush in little spurts last night. State of the Onion address. He propped up the US healthcare system as the best in the world---whereas last I heard, the US ranked 12 out of 13 industrial nations. Also one of his biggest applause lines was about the need to knock off extravagant lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies. You knew he was going to please his handlers with that one.

The pundits who reviewed the speech afterwards on TV actually thought his address was good work. Well, they would.

In most beginning acting classes, teachers tell students that THE one thing an actor does not do is INDICATE. In other words, an actor is supposed to REVEAL emotion. He is not supposed to REFER TO emotion in a generalized way. Well, Bush is the great indicator. He indicates all over the place.

Speaking of medical system---

Kelly O’ Meara has written a very good article in the current issue of Insight magazine. The subject? The flu vaccine. She covers the issue of MERCURY, a known neurotoxin, which is present in one type of the vaccine. Here is an excerpt:

But what about the growing number of people concerned about the amount of mercury (thimerosal) in the inactive influenza vaccine?

It turns out that, at the very time government health officials were warning of the influenza epidemic, they also were putting out unrelated warnings about the quantities of tuna and other fish that could be ingested safely in view of the high levels of mercury in their flesh.

The Environmental Protection Agency recommends ingesting no more than 0.1 micrograms of mercury, while the FDA recommends no more than 0.4 micrograms per kilogram per day. What this amounts to is a recommendation by the EPA and the FDA that women and small children eat no more than 12 ounces of tuna or other fish or shellfish per week. This is because, according to the EPA, "mercury consumed by a pregnant or nursing woman or by a young child can harm the developing brain and nervous system."

Yet the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices has issued a warning, passed along by the CDC, that "all children aged 6 [months] to 23 months and pregnant women in their second and third trimester" receive the inactive influenza vaccine – which contains a full 25 micrograms of mercury – 250 times the limit the EPA recommends for tuna-lovers.

Nevertheless, the CDC website says, "the benefits of influenza vaccine with reduced or standard thimerosal content outweighs the theoretical risk, if any, of thimerosal," which is of course the source of the mercury.

The CDC website also states: "Based on guidelines established by the FDA, the EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, no child will receive excessive mercury from childhood vaccines regardless of whether or not their flu shot contains thimerosal as a preservative."

Is there a disconnect in communications between federal agencies? Certainly the EPA and the FDA don't think the risk from exposure of children to high levels of mercury is "theoretical." Does mercury injected directly into the bloodstream of a small child stop at the neck, whereas mercury ingested from a tuna-fish sandwich does not? If EPA and FDA mercury limits are 0.1 and 0.4 micrograms, how can the CDC believe the 25 micrograms contained in the influenza vaccine is not "excessive mercury"?

According to Raymond Strikas, a spokesman for the CDC National Immunization Program, "At this point there is no confirmed proof that anyone has been harmed by mercury in vaccines. I'm not arguing that mercury isn't a neurotoxin – you're right. No one argues that point. It's got to do with the amount in vaccines – it's very small and has been eliminated in the vast majority of childhood vaccines. There is thimerosal-free or reduced-thimerosal influenza vaccine available."

Then the "commonsense" factor cited by CDC Director Gerberding about influenza being at epidemic levels kicks in to point out that if you ingest mercury and it causes neurological problems, then it's just common sense that when you inject it into the bloodstream it will do the same.

Thimerosal is a preservative that has been used in multi-dose vials of vaccines. It contains 49 percent ethylmercury.

The CDC says "there is no convincing evidence of harm caused by low doses of thimerosal." However, in July 1999, the Public Health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics agreed thimerosal should be eliminated "as a precautionary measure." And Strikas is correct when he advises that there is a thimerosal-free influenza vaccine. The problem, critics say, is that of the 85 million doses produced for this flu season only 3.2 million were thimerosal-free. Which lucky kids, they ask, weren't exposed to potential mercury risks?

End of excerpt.

Yeah, LET THEM EAT MERCURY AND LET THEM GET IT SHOT INTO THEIR BODIES.

I mean, we have to allow mercury in the vaccine because mercury is an industry and there are jobs at stake. The electorate ranks jobs as one of the main issues of the prez campaign.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

THE ALTMAN STORY ONE MORE TIME

JANUARY 21, 2004. Since I wrote a piece about Lawrence Altman’s NY Times article on 93 child flu deaths, there has been some feedback from people who doubt the story.

They apparently can’t believe Altman made such a blatant error, which was contained in his fol