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October 08, 2010
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Michel Chossudovsky, “The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the
Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency,” Global
Research, August 25, 2009, http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=14901.
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The H1N1 virus has spawned widespread panic and fear throughout the
world.
However, upon closer examination, many of the claims made by
the World Health Organization (WHO) seem to be based on weak and
incomplete data. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has created and used data to grossly exaggerate the
need for an expensive and unnecessary vaccine aimed at creating
profits for the pharmaceutical industry - not protecting Americans.
The WHO claimed that a worldwide public health emergency had
unfolded on an unprecedented scale in 2009, and 4.9 billion doses of
H1N1 swine flu vaccine were needed to stop the spread. Very soon
thereafter countries all around the globe began preparation for the
inoculation of millions of people in accordance with WHO
recommendations.
In some countries the WHO recommended that the H1N1
vaccination be mandatory. However, most people were unaware that the
data used by the WHO was faulty at best.
In the US, both federal and state governments began preparation for
the pandemic. State governments are generally responsible for these
preparations, in coordination with federal agencies.
President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology released a
report that,
“considered the H1N1 pandemic ‘a serious health threat’
to the US - not as serious as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic but worse
than the swine flu outbreak of 1976.”
Responding to such terrifying
language, Massachusetts’s legislation introduced hefty fines and
prison sentences for those who refused to be vaccinated. The US
military was expected to have an active role in this health
emergency.
There was no uniform system for collecting data on suspected swine
flu victims in the US, which led to confusion in the absence of
accurate statistics. The CDC acknowledged that the figures being
collected on “confirmed and probable cases” in the US contained no
separation between “confirmed” and “probable.” In fact, only a small
percentage of the reported cases were “confirmed” by laboratory
tests.
This faulty data and much more like it from around the globe
was given to the WHO, who in turn used the numbers to justify a
pandemic.
The need for a perfected method of diagnosing and counting infected
people was demonstrated when the WHO’s “data” caused a wave of
inaccurate conclusions as to the severity of the flu and the
distance it had spread.
The WHO declared a Phase 4 level of severity on April 27. Just two
days later (April 29), without corroborating evidence, the pandemic
was raised to Phase 5. Just over a month later (June 11) it was
raised again to Phase 6, the level of an actual pandemic. The abrupt
change in numbers should have been a wake-up call to the WHO that
something had gone wrong in its data collection.
Yet despite the
suspicious changes, there was no attempt to improve the process of
data collection in terms of laboratory confirmation. In fact quite
the opposite occurred. Following the
Phase 6 pandemic announcement,
the CDC decided that data collection of individual confirmed and
probable cases was no longer necessary to determine the spread of
swine flu.
The WHO ignored the change in data collection and that
same month predicted with authority that,
“as many as 2 billion
people could become infected over the next two years - nearly
one-third of the world population.”
The report created an atmosphere
of fear and insecurity.
By August 2009, the WHO casually acknowledged that the underlying
symptoms were moderate and that,
“most people will recover from swine
flu within a week, just as they would from seasonal forms of
influenza.”
The inaccurate data collection exaggerated numbers of infected
people due to the CDC’s quantitative model created in July 2009.
From April 15 to July 24, 2009, states reported a total of 43,771
confirmed and probable cases of novel influenza A (H1N1) infection.
Of these reported cases, 5,011 people were hospitalized and 302
died.
On July 24, 2009, counts were discontinued by the CDC. Instead of
collecting data that could have provided empirical backing for
assessments of how the H1N1 virus was spreading, the CDC announced
that it had developed its model to determine the true number of
novel H1N1 flu cases in the United States.
The CDC further stated,
“The model took the number of cases reported
by states and adjusted the figure to account for known sources of
underestimation,” such as accounting for people who never reported
their illness, despite no proof that these infected people existed.
These estimations caused an inaccurate and basically made-up figure
of infections.
The CDC recognized early in the outbreak that, once
the disease was widespread, it would be more valuable to transition
to standard surveillance systems to monitor illness,
hospitalizations, and deaths.
The CDC’s data was then used to justify massive vaccinations, which
created huge profits for the pharmaceutical industry. The CDC posits
that the data sent to them by the states is “underestimated.” The
CDC then inflates figures of “unconfirmed” cases, many of which are
cases of seasonal influenza. The “corrected figures” are then
inserted into the model.
Using the CDC model approach, it is
estimated that more than one million people became ill with novel
H1N1 flu between April and June 2009 in the United States. Since
these estimates are not based on confirmed illness, the numbers can
grow and shrink at the whim of those controlling the model. The
CDC’s model simulations and predictions of the spread of H1N1 swine
flu are then used to plan the implementation of a nationwide
vaccination program.
Based on the model’s “predictions,” mass
vaccination of half of the US population is required, with the
possible provision for quarantines under civilian and/or military
jurisdiction.
According to reports, the US government expected to have 85 million
doses of the vaccine by the end of October 2009. The US government
had ordered 195 million doses from the pharmaceutical companies. On
July 29, 2009, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
- an
advisory committee to the CDC - recommended that novel
H1N1 flu
vaccine be made available first to priority groups; these groups
together would equal approximately 159 million individuals.
The Agence France-Presse reported that the United States put in orders
for
the vaccine that would cover between 30 and 78 percent of
Americans.
As a result, the pharmaceutical industry gained massive
profits from Americans who purchased an unnecessary and potentially
dangerous vaccine in large quantities.
It is essential that physicians, epidemiologists, and health workers
speak out through their respective associations and refute the
government officials who are acting on behalf of the pharmaceutical
industry, as well as denounce the manipulation of data.
An accurate
method of counting infected people has to be created in time for the
next pandemic, should one hit, in order to better serve the needs of
the public. It is also important to warn the public on the dangers
of untested H1N1 flu vaccines. The WHO cannot accurately serve the
people it claims to serve without the cooperation of groups like the
CDC.
Sadly, the CDC is not protecting humanity because it is too
busy expanding the bottom line of the pharmaceutical industry.
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