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Published: Mon, 2 Nov 2009
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" Tracking H1N1. With growing frustration over a shortage of the vaccine to prevent the virus. So far over ten million people have argued that vaccinated. There haven't been any reports of serious side effects that's good news. Also White House senior adviser David Axelrod. With more good news for people who still have to get that shot."
" We were told by the manufactures of the vaccine and we started that process very quickly we were told by the amid a manufactures that they would have 40000 doses ready. File last week. We have 28 I'm sorry forty million doses we had 28 million. As of last week it's going every day we expect to get ten million this week and what. Catching up quickly but we did represented the public what we were told by the manufactures and that turned out not to be the case."
" Fox News medical contributor doctor Marc Siegel is here with some answers and doctor Siegel BC David Axelrod there the White House has come under. Some massive heat for not having these vaccines available it's you know it it is the manufacturers that happened for I've been producing them what's your what's your take on this I don't."
" Look at that work I think part of the problem is that they thought they're gonna have more than they had an it's an old nephew were using from the 1950s to make the technology. But this is -- national disgrace because. They were busy completing the seasonal flu vaccine and telling everybody together they made a 115 million doses. Of the vaccine for the seasonal flu which made out of car and all of this year because the pandemic strain crowds and out like crabgrass shuttle launch. Now we may still see the seasonal flu but it wouldn't be until January so why do we make this vaccine first gonna go oh yeah. Why does no good answer to that because they could have gone to the vaccine manufacturers and said shift over shift over they should've that's their biggest mistake that they should have known that this would happen. Absolutely we had every indication in Mexico last march 95%. Of the eyes selects where this particular flu. In the Southern Hemisphere over their winter our summer 90%. Where this flow we're paying one point eight billion dollars to the max vaccine manufacturers to make this. The vaccine is free it's really a great situation if we'd only switched over earlier they keep saying finicky technology. Old technology that's a fair point but there are plenty of time to do that so what does that have been."
" As we've seen that ten million people have been vaccinated no serious side effects and there were there was concern about that. So that's working out to our favor we're not getting enough vaccine that's not working at our favor will you would say this is a disastrous situation and we'll."
" I would reassure the American public that this is a very safe vaccine because it such old technology we do 24 clinical trial. Here it's all technology while we're talking about getting vaccine and picture and curled back. Okay let them let it looks. Mean that's what I senator Kelly so maybe -- that's the point wanna say it's reassuring that it's old technology I mean in terms of being safe it's been given to hundreds of billions of people since the 1950s. But you're right you should be concerned why -- we -- relying on this we have newer methods but the vaccine fear mongers are out there saying don't do it. You know that the FDA refuses to approve a back seat that's being used in Europe. -- more cup -- more up to date technology. It's a safe vaccine but this is why its slow because -- using old fashioned technology not so waiting for a vaccine that it wouldn't have -- America saw. Right that's another issue by the way the flu you're switching your and they usually doesn't have the commercial all the shots. They do of the commercial except for individual doses but I also want to reassure people on that. That the marriage shall always has as much Mercury as a single piece of fish has it been tested and tested and tested it has not been shown to cause looks as a you know something. Since they remove it from most vaccines there's been an increase of autism there's no evidence that the miracles involved doctors say they'll always -- to -- you don't bring your site Saturday -- yeah. Yeah so out of there and Angela. How these people don't give us national health reform if they can't even get us a vaccine that's -- top. -- Yeah thanks I appreciate -- growing."
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