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Skriven 2009-11-01 21:50:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Jim Weller
Ärende: PIGGY PLAGUE  91101
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 -=> Quoting Jim Weller to Hap Newsom <=-

 ->  HN> Anne came home from school yesterday
 ->  HN> with a case of the Piggy Plague

 JW> Nice light hearted nickname.

 JW> I hope she gets over it soon.
 
 HN> no sign of the H1N1 vaccine in sight!

 JW> What? Canada has ordered 50 million doses with a view of donating
 JW> the excess 20 million to third world countries. We have received 6

That was very generous of you lot.  The Australian vaccine was only
made in about 20 million doses, just enough to vaccinate all
susceptible population with a few left over, possibly for some so far
un-identified recipients.   I got my dose - free, of course - a week
before I went on holidays.  I was told that it took at least 2 weeks
before it became effective, but I survived that period safely.

 JW> million doses since Oct. 1 with another 400,000 next week, then
 JW> production gets cranked up to 3 million a week. Priorities were set
 JW> with health care workers getting the first round. Next came all the
 JW> people who work with the public: teachers, flight attendants, cops,
 JW> firemen and jail guards etc. Then high risk individuals based on age
 JW> and health. Next comes the general public. ALL our teachers got
 JW> their shot weeks ago.

That was rather similar to the distribution here.  The only deaths
have been of people with other, pre-existing health conditions.

 JW> As the Yukon, NWT and Nunavut have a large number of poor, mostly
 JW> Aboriginal, families living in over crowded housing and in remote
 JW> communities with no medical facilities the whole northern region was

Like them.

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