Swine flu vaccine: Poland smarter than everybody else :P

[Martinus]

France sells flu shots; Germany plans returns

January 4, 2010 — 9:57am ET | By Tracy Staton

Germany [1] and France are trying to cut back on their H1N1 vaccine supplies. Germany wants to accept only half of its vaccine order from GlaxoSmithKline because the so-called swine flu turned out to be less virulent than expected [2], officials told Bloomberg. Meanwhile, France is offloading vaccine doses to other countries, citing research showing that the shots offered protection with just one dose rather than two as initially prescribed.

First, Germany. Its 50-million-dose order also was based on the two-shots-necessary belief, Deputy Health Minister Hartmut Schubert told the news service. And that's excessive, he said, because the disease turned out to be less severe than initially thought. So 25 million doses are enough to protect Germany's population of more than 80 million, the Health Ministry said. Officials plan to negotiate with Glaxo on reducing deliveries of the vaccine.

Meanwhile, France has sold 300,000 of its doses to Qatar, and it's in the process of selling another 2 million to Egypt. Government officials are in talks with Ukraine and Mexico for further sales. The country allocated its entire 28-million-dose order to Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi-Aventis' vaccine subsidiary. And it had an option on 28 million further doses. The company says it's open to the idea of slowing down deliveries.

As you know, the H1N1 pandemic offered vaccine makers an enormous opportunity to quickly develop shots and ramp up production to fill big orders from governments all over the world. But for a variety of reasons--the H1N1 flu's relative mildness, the pandemic's quick progression, and, ironically, the vaccines' effectiveness--that opportunity has shrunk markedly, affecting drugmakers' revenue projections and more.

Poland didn't buy swine flu vaccines. Apparently, the rate of deaths and illnesses in Poland is about the same as in Germany and France, and way below the normal annual flu.

So to all those who were going into hysterics about the swine flu vaccine on Languish: 

[Richard Hakluyt]

Polska!

[Fate]

When the next wave of the Spanish Flu comes around, let's hope that Poland retains its primitive medical practices. 

[Slargos]

3 million Swedes were vaccinated, yet I've seen numbers claiming relatively speaking more people got sick aswell as died in Sweden than in germany which in comparison to Sweden only managed to vaccinate about 8% of its population as compared to Sweden's roughly 30%.

The claims that several of the deaths were actually caused by the vaccine are a bit but in this day and age who knows?

[Richard Hakluyt]

It just never really took off did it? It was the Rhode Island of flu viruses.

I asked my doctor several months ago why there was such a fuss over this particular virus. He said it was becuase it was "new" and "came from Mexico" 

[HisMajestyBOB]

It just never really took off did it? It was the Rhode Island of flu viruses.

I asked my doctor several months ago why there was such a fuss over this particular virus. He said it was becuase it was "new" and "came from Mexico" 

Damn foreigner viruses, taking all the jobs from hardworking American viruses! 

[Martinus]

He said it was becuase it was "new" and "came from Mexico" 

So it was the Jaron of flu vaccines? P

[Richard Hakluyt]

He said it was becuase it was "new" and "came from Mexico" 

So it was the Jaron of flu vaccines? P

Not big enough to be the Jaron of anything 

[CountDeMoney]

When the next wave of the Spanish Flu comes around, let's hope that Poland retains its primitive medical practices. 

Naturally Martinus defends homopathic methods.

[Grey Fox]

Where is Drakken anyway?

[Tamas]

it's so eastern european to be a careless bum and then be proud of it

[Martinus]

We also didn't pump a single euro into the economy as a "bailout" measure and yet have the highest GDP growth in the EU because a lot of the money pumped into their economy by the Germans trickled to Poland. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yep, it'll be 3 potatoes each next Christmas dinner for the Poles 

[DGuller]

Poland didn't buy swine flu vaccines. Apparently, the rate of deaths and illnesses in Poland is about the same as in Germany and France, and way below the normal annual flu.

So to all those who were going into hysterics about the swine flu vaccine on Languish: 

That's a bit like playing one round of Russian roulette, getting an empty chamber, and then boasting about how all those sissies were wrong to criticize you for playing.

[Tamas]

Poland didn't buy swine flu vaccines. Apparently, the rate of deaths and illnesses in Poland is about the same as in Germany and France, and way below the normal annual flu.

So to all those who were going into hysterics about the swine flu vaccine on Languish: 

That's a bit like playing one round of Russian roulette, getting an empty chamber, and then boasting about how all those sissies were wrong to criticize you for playing.

welcome to the reals of the east euro mind