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Originally Posted by twotoner
What gets old is people without common sense. If enough people had it, there wouldn't be a need for this kind of annoying banter.
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So the head of a German medical association lacks common sense in suggesting to his members that it not be given? Why should I listen to you above him?
Good for you for getting it. But it's as simple as you have a different risk perception of the disease and the vaccine based on the limited information out there. What gets old is that based on an individual risk perception issue people feel the need to question other's intelligence.
If it was as simple as a common sense issue then the poll (which accurately reflects Canada as a whole) would be more skewed. It would also mean that Germany would have a higher than 19% willingness to be vaccined.
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Meanwhile some medical associations are advising their members not to administer the new vaccine. President of the German Association of General and Family Medicine, Michael Kochen, has called on German general doctors not to give it to patients. “The risks outweigh the benefits,” he said.
Wolfram Hartmann, president of the Association of Paediatricians, accused the government of making false scientific statements. He said children under the age of three should not be given the shots.
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http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091018-22649.html
Fact of the matter is there seems to be enough uncertainty, out there to warrant at least some concern.
AC or LChoy, if you're reading this, I'd be interested in:
(a) your father's thoughts re. the comments of the 2 German presidents of their subsequent medical associations.
(b) Why is it only now that an adjuvant has been approved for the first time ever for use in a flu vaccine? Why not before given that they boost and provide more broad spectrum protection? Surely that's a good thing for seasonal vaccines?
I'm just curious as to why given that they've been in other vaccines for so long why it's taken a pandemic before they get approval for the first time in flu vaccines?
Surely it would make sense to do this on an annual basis?