Comments on: Swine flu: here we go again http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/swine-flu-here-we-go-again/ Just another soapbox surfer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: quixote http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/swine-flu-here-we-go-again/comment-page-1/#comment-25821 quixote Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:29:23 +0000 http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/swine-flu-here-we-go-again/#comment-25821 SCdF: they're less sure about the "healthy adults" targeting, last I saw. They're saying it could just be because that group is the least likely to be vaccinated. Either way, though, it's still the other groups that are most likely to *spread* the infection in an epidemic, so they're first in line. If that changes, epidemiologists will change the priority order. The way to stop an epidemic is to stop the *spread*, not necessarily to immunize the targets, if the vectors and the targets are two different groups. (I'm not sure I'm explaining very well, but hopefully you see what I'm trying to say :-) .) SCdF: they’re less sure about the “healthy adults” targeting, last I saw. They’re saying it could just be because that group is the least likely to be vaccinated.

Either way, though, it’s still the other groups that are most likely to *spread* the infection in an epidemic, so they’re first in line. If that changes, epidemiologists will change the priority order.

The way to stop an epidemic is to stop the *spread*, not necessarily to immunize the targets, if the vectors and the targets are two different groups. (I’m not sure I’m explaining very well, but hopefully you see what I’m trying to say :-) .)

]]> By: SCdF http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/swine-flu-here-we-go-again/comment-page-1/#comment-25820 SCdF Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:10:14 +0000 http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/swine-flu-here-we-go-again/#comment-25820 "The priority is, more-or-less in order, frontline public health workers (nurses, ambulance drivers, and the like); school-age and day care-age children (the main vectors); the elderly, infants, and the immune-suppressed; people who deal with the public a lot (teachers, hairdressers, police, funeral workers, and so on), and, finally, the rest of us." My understanding is that this flu actually "goes for" healthy adults between 20 and 40, not the young or old with weak immune systems. “The priority is, more-or-less in order, frontline public health workers (nurses, ambulance drivers, and the like); school-age and day care-age children (the main vectors); the elderly, infants, and the immune-suppressed; people who deal with the public a lot (teachers, hairdressers, police, funeral workers, and so on), and, finally, the rest of us.”

My understanding is that this flu actually “goes for” healthy adults between 20 and 40, not the young or old with weak immune systems.

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