Trust Fineburg's committee to deliver an accurate, relevant, honest WHO appraisal

[indigo girl]

Trust Fineberg's committee to deliver accurate, relevant, honest WHOappraisal - Journal - Scott McPherson's Web Presence

Scott McPherson is the Chief Information Officer of the Florida House of Representatives.

... the article that prompted me to write this blog actually deals with the WHO analysis of itself. The WHO has been the subject of much scrutiny as the result of what has been to date, a very mild pandemic. Some are inferring that Big Pharma actually orchestrated this pandemic in order to make a lot of money on vaccine and antivirals.

Believe me, Big Pharma has more and bigger things to make money on than vaccines. Anyone who really believes Big Pharma would drop everything it was doing to go and make vaccine just does not understand how drug companies make their money today. Druf companies see vaccine production as a necessary evil; a component of what they do, but not nearly as profitable as making and selling drugs dealing with everything from erectile dysfunction to hair loss.

In fact, accusing drug makers of profiting unnecessarily from vaccine production may actually cause drug makers to forego vaccine production in the future. Now some, including those misguided but WRONG individuals who think vaccines cause autism, might rejoice in that thought. But the simple truth is that drug companies see vaccine production as an important public health duty. And accusing them of orchestrating an overly aggressive response to a flu pandemic is placing blame in the wrong place.

Harvey Fineberg is Dr. Harvey Fineberg, head of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC. He also is the former head of the Harvard school of public health, and former Harvard provost. But to flubies, Harvey is best-known as the co-author of the seminal study of the 1976 swine flu debacle, along with the late historian Richard Neustadt. Harvey is also a pen pal of mine, and I engage him occasionally as a sounding board for ideas that, depending on his thoughts, eventually appear here as blogs.

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Sheesh. Conspiracy theorists who do not do their homework should be banned from all keyboards. Glad to have a rational brain prevail.

[indigo girl]

Hey, Crunch! Long time, no see!

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Always watching - LOL!

I was thinking how about a virus this year that only took out evil people? How cool would that be!

[indigo girl]

No such luck, I'm afraid. The supposedly benign swine flu virus took out many innocent victims that were otherwise healthy. Some 40% had no risk factors.