Flu who?
Fri, November 6, 2009 at 23:09 So I've mentioned I listen to a bunch of podcasts.
One of my absolute favorites has to be TWIS. Last week they shortly mentioned at the end, during their minion mailbag, that there is an ongoing debate about the H1N1 vaccine currently being used around the world.
In Denmark as in many countries, we have universal health care. A system I'm going to be a part of as a nurse.
The debate that has been going on here is that the amount of vaccine has been set to a limit.
The government has bought enough vaccines for 3 mio. people. Denmark's current population is at around 6,5 mio.
Therefore they've decided to offer the vaccine to.
People of importance, elderly, children, patients with pulmonary problems and health care professionals.
The problem that has been debated at length here is what the first group consists of.
To the politicians this means, politicians (head of state, mayors and so on). But the line is a bit blurry.
So blurry that so called celebrities are demanding injections based on fame alone.
I can agree to the queen and so on...but the host of "who wants to be a millionaire"...not so much.
Secondly there has been the debacle about the safety of this vaccine. The first preliminary trials showed that they contained some amounts of mercury. This of course blew all around both health care personnel and patients. Some refusing to take the shot because of the risk surrounding the mercury.
I am glad that as Justin (cohost of TWIS) points out, this is such a minute risk that dying of the decease is much higher.
The extra tidbit of information I've been able to hear is that the amount of mercury in each vaccine is equal to a small can of tuna.
My advise is therefore to skip one of the 3 fish meals you have that week, if you live up to current public health advise.
Make informed choices
Reader Comments (1)
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people have realized that it was a hoax but were afraid Media