CDC says Flu vaccine not for the elderly–Dr. Emanuel concurs

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel at the NIH

The Obama health care plan as recommended by his top health advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, is being enacted even before a bill gets out of the House of Representatives. Emanuel, brother of White House advisor Rahm, has basically said that doctors should stop treating the elderly in favor of “social justice” and that they shouldn’t take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously.

This press release from the CDC from yesterday outlines the plan for administering the new H1N1 “Swine Flu” vaccine. Notice who doesn’t get the vaccine– no one over age 64 regardless of any other considerations. In the Obamacare scheme it’s the elderly that will be the biggest drag on the system and if a few tens of thousands of them die off this winter because of flu, well then, we’ll just be that much better off when the government takes over health care. It’s going to be a beautiful thing!

CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP),
a panel made up of medical and public health experts, met July 29, 2009, to make recommendations on who should receive the new H1N1 vaccine
[who elected them to make life and death decisions for us?]
when it becomes available. While some issues are still unknown, such as how severe the virus will be during the fall and winter months, the ACIP considered several factors, including current disease patterns, populations most at-risk for severe illness based on current trends in illness, hospitalizations and deaths, how much vaccine is expected to be available, and the timing of vaccine availability.
The groups recommended to receive the novel H1N1 influenza vaccine include:
• Pregnant women because they are at higher risk of complications and can potentially provide protection to infants who cannot be vaccinated;
• Household contacts and caregivers for children younger than 6 months of age;
• Healthcare and emergency medical services personnel;
• All people from 6 months through 24 years of age
• Persons aged 25 through 64 years who have health conditions associated with higher risk of medical complications from influenza.

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