Quotes of the day – Swine flu special - October 28, 2009
All Nature’s pandemic flu coverage is collected on our news special page.
“We think it will get easier to find vaccine in the weeks that come. It is likely also … in the future, we will have significant amounts of vaccine that can’t be used.”
Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says despite a perceived shortage America may actually end up throwing away some of its swine flu vaccine (Reuters).
“Increased demand during a severe pandemic could exceed the capacities of Internet providers’ access networks for residential users and interfere with teleworkers in the securities market and other sectors, according to a DHS study and providers.”
The US Government Accountability Office says H1N1 could crash the internet (large pdf).
“The situation is under control and not significantly different from the usual seasonal flu situation.”
Viktor Maleyev, deputy chief of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology in Russia, comments on the country’s first swine flu deaths (LA Times).
“Given the extraordinary precautions being taken across the nation to prevent the spread of the H1N1 influenza, the Archdiocese has instituted a series of steps to be followed for the time being during the celebration of the Mass.”
Jonathan Gaspar, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, says the church will stop offering consecrated wine at Communion and urge people to avoid physical contact during Mass to avoid the spread of H1N1 (Boston Globe).
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"H1N1 could crash the internet"
The Internet will transcend anything up to political confluence of overwhelming ignorance with overweening arrogance. We lack rigorous characterization of the topology and function of cluelessness, but we are well versed in sequelae to frank criminality.
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"No day is so cold that politicians have their hands in their own pockets."
Posted by: Uncle Al | October 28, 2009 06:23 PM