The British Medical Journal (BMJ) on its website, quoting the reassuring (or mea culpa?) Professor Liam Donaldson, Director General of Health, who acknowledged during a news conference that the virus eventually H1N1 had created a “swine flu” considerably less lethal than feared. ” Official recognition of this hoax has angered some health professionals, who have not failed to express their discontent over the BMJ’s website.
H1N1 not as dangerous as feared
The Department of Health NHS (National Health) feared being overwhelmed by the intensity of influenza A/H1N1 …which does not happen: the NHS is the shock, and for good reason.
He mentioned the two waves that rocked the United Kingdom (ie England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), the first in early summer, the second this fall, there were 290,000 cases in the first, 482,000 for the second case, the first being fallen faster (in terms of incidence), while the second tends to last. Thus, the second wave has led to more hospitalizations than the first. But for the NHS, it would move toward its end – that is, the peak alert is over.
At December 21, the number of inpatients was 523, including 113 intensive care. Since the month of April (beginning of the epidemic), 298 deaths were registered in the United Kingdom. In England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the number of new cases continues to decline each week, between 1,000 and 2,000 fewer cases per week.
Official recognition of this hoax has angered some health professionals, who have not failed to express their discontent over the BMJ’s website.
- “What a relief to know that the swine flu is less lethal than feared,” wrote one of them, stressing that in its regular bulletins WHO “carefully avoids making alarmist predictions of morbidity mortality, especially as it confirmed from several sources that it has been declining since last month. Final thought, found apparently in France it: “We have the impression that our Department of Health has tried repeatedly to” play safe “by bombarding the public with figures alarmist and speculative.”
Question: “How much taxpayer money was used for these campaigns? “…
“Another correspondent, quoting the title of a Shakespeare play: Much ado about nothing – in French: Much ado about nothing, adding:” … while millions of people continue to die [the fault] real killers . The reproach was unnecessarily scared to developing countries, while “it is time for developing economies, like India, focusing on saving people dying of problems more severe and treatable like malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea” , this correspondent felt that these countries “have wasted millions of precious dollars in the fight against H1N1.
For another, finally, the warning was an H1N1 “Alarm-gate” scandal as alarming was the Watergate scandal. He writes: “Climatologists and epidemiologists … have unknowingly passed a public service: Climate-Flu-gate and gate were immunized against the public alarmism spread by the media” …
Meanwhile the UK continues vaccinations. At December 21, 3 million people from priority groups had been vaccinated, including 101,000 pregnant women.
Tags: H1N1, NHS, Swine Flu, virus
