President Obama announced this week that the increase of illness of Swine Flu is a national emergency and will take actions that will hopefully decrease the number of people affected.
Obama signed a declaration on Friday that will give the federal government more power to help the states by providing more vaccines. Some requirements for a vaccine will be waived and equipment will be given to states that need it the most. Those requirements are contained in Medicare, Medicaid and state Children's Health Insurance programs, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule.
Obama said that the pandemic may overburden health care resources which would be detrimental to everyone.
Since arriving in the US in April, millions of people have been infected and over 1000 have died.
I agree that the H1N1 virus is a problem and I think Obama and other health care officials have made the right choice by making vaccines more available. It's a good idea to stop some cases of the flu now, before too many people are infected and money is drained.
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I definately agree that it is a good thing vaccines are being made more available, it just makes sense to get more people vaccinated and try to stop the flu from spreading. I did my current event on the same topic, and the thing I thought was really smart was that drive up tents are being set up outside of hospitals to give out vaccines and treatment for the swine flu, so as to prevent the virus from being spread to already sick patients in the hospitals.
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