Friday, October 23, 2009
QD: News Every Day--slow start for H1N1 vaccine
ACP Internist's daily digest of news and events continues with the answer to the age-old question: Which came in first, H1N1 influenza or its egg-based vaccine?
Twenty percent of U.S. children had a flu-like illness earlier in October, and most of them likely H1N1 flu. And 7% of the surveyed adults said they'd had a flu-like illness in the past week, according to a household survey of more than 10,000 adults done in the first 11 days of October. Now, an already slow process of using chicken eggs is now burdened by vaccine-makers trying to make diseases for seasonal and H1N1 strains. Also, the virus on which the swine flu vaccine is based reproduces very slowly in eggs, moreso than seasonal flu.
New York City is seeing fewer cases than expected, but Philadelphia's childrens' hospitals are already hunkering down from ER cases that probably could have been treated at home. Both cities had been suggested to have acquired a "herd immunity" from having been hit so hard in the spring.
Leave it to Moody's to break it down into investment advice. Hospitals usually see some positive cash flow during flu season, but H1N1 could muddle the picture.
And, don't miss the H1N1 robotic simulator.
Health care reform
Senators met with White House officials Thursday evening to discuss how to merge the two health care reform bills in the Senate. Politico reported negotiators are contemplating a national government health plan, but allowing states to opt out. But then it's not a national plan ...
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