What most of the American public doesn't know is that the vast majority of the presumed swine flu cases recognized by trained physicians were NOT flu at all. They weren't swine flu or regular flu.
Why did the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) call for a national H1N1 health emergency? Where is the justifiable data supporting such a declaration? Investigative Reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News, wanted some answers.
In a recent interview with Dr. Mercola, Sharyl explains, "The reason I looked into this is a couple of months ago, I got tips from three or four different segments of public healthcare, with folks telling me the CDC has recommended that they go ahead and stop testing for and counting swine flu cases.
Each different entity that contacted me was concerned, thinking that this should not be happening. They really felt that it was necessary for the swine flu to continue to be tracked in some details. So I went about trying to find out why this decision was made and what the ramifications would be."
Why did the CDC stop tracking H1N1 cases?
She also asked states, one by one, to help explain the rationale behind the CDC's decision to stop tracking H1N1 cases. Further explaining, "One of my good sources within the government said to me that they're either trying to, in his opinion, over-represent the swine flu numbers or under-represent by not counting them anymore. He said, "You need to find out which it is." And so to find out which it might be, I really wanted to see the data that the CDC had at the time it made the decision to quit counting the cases."
Ms. Attkisson requested information from the CDC and FDA regarding the H1N1 data on file. She simply requested public information (that normally is readily available), but the Health and Human Services (HHS over CDC)) refused, saying "this is not a matter of "widespread and exceptional media or public interest." Yet, the President had declared the swine flu a national public health emergency!
As a result of being ignored and stone-walled by the CDC, Sharyl went directly to the 50 states asking for their statistics on state lab-confirmed H1N1 prior to the halt of individual testing and counting in July. Of those presumed likely swine flu cases out of approximately every hundred of what was tested, only a small fraction, like 2% or 3% were actually swine flu. In every instance, the biggest number of cases that were swine flu was 30%.
The majority of media outlets and even government agencies have been stating that virtually every person who visited their physician with flu-like symptoms in recent months has H1N1, with no testing.
No testing, no data, no information, just hype and fearmongering by government health officials and many health care providers. Most American families recognize the inconsistencies; but sadly many others do not. Accidental assessments....or intentional misinformation? Do the math.
Stay informed, eat well, live well.
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