Come Clean, Guys
The continuing saga of swine flu. I’m planning on staying healthy, and one of the best ways of doing that is to ignore the hysteria and the doomsday prophecies. It’s funny, but I do recall that at once place I worked, people used to come around with a little cart asking who wanted a free flu vaccine. No takers, at least not in the units I worked in, and it wasn’t because everyone had already had one.
Why is it that healthcare workers are so adverse to flu shots? It might be worth discussing, especially hearing why physicians have such low rates.
Anyway, back to swine flu. Seems that someone if finally doing some real journalism and digging beyond sound-bytes. CBS News has asked the question if swine flu cases are overestimated? And then they tell of the experience in trying to get data from the CDC, along with the CDC’s rather abrupt decision last June, to tell states to stop testing for it. Very odd, considering that this is a new disease and they should be tracking it.
Interesting story and finally, a real journalistic effort to dig for the truth.