On Friday, President Obama declared that the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, is a national emergency. The declaration was made on Saturday and gives the Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, authority to move emergency rooms off-site if the need arises.
Moving emergency rooms and creating new ones in other places, like schools or churches, would allow more patients to be seen and would protect other patients from contracting the flu from those who have it. The offiste centers would also be eligible to receive federal funds.
The announcement comes when the production of the H1N1 vaccine is far below the government's original estimates of 120 million doses. Instead, an approximate 11 million doses have been distributed.
To date, over 1000 people have died in the U.S. from the swine flu, including 100 children. 46 states are reporting widespread flu activity. It is estimated that over 20,000 have been hospitalized.
View additional information about the status of the swine flu.
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But according to FOX news, Obama's own daughters have NOT been vaccinated against H1N1, nor will they. I smell a rat in the White House.
People! Get it together. Put it into perspective. How many people die from the regular flu every year? About 30,000. The only pandemic is a pandemic of evil in the minds of those who wish to make billions off vaccines and Tamiflu. Stand up for yourselves. Refuse the vaccine, it has the potential to cripple or kill you.
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