Pediatric ICU Specialist on Vaccines
Apr. 28th, 2010 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holly_evolvingThe short of it: Vaccinate! It saves lives!
The long is sobering, and definitely worth the read:
http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_science/132771.html
Something important to note, when the interviewer asks about making money off vaccines: pharmaceutical companies don't make much money off them. The big money in big pharma is geriatric medicines--heart meds, blood pressure meds, cholesterol controls. So they're not going to push vaccines that people don't need on them when they have much better and easier revenue streams available to them.
Here's the full original: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/interviews/cristofani.html
And EMTs: she's made videos of emergent sick children that you can use to get a better handle on how to react in those rare cases where you encounter them.
Interview with the parents of an infant too young to be vaccinated who wound up with whooping cough. The CDC traced it back to her older brother's high school. I am SO GLAD I just got my booster shots, even if I had a crappy reaction to them:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/interviews/fontan.html
The long is sobering, and definitely worth the read:
http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_science/132771.html
Something important to note, when the interviewer asks about making money off vaccines: pharmaceutical companies don't make much money off them. The big money in big pharma is geriatric medicines--heart meds, blood pressure meds, cholesterol controls. So they're not going to push vaccines that people don't need on them when they have much better and easier revenue streams available to them.
Here's the full original: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/interviews/cristofani.html
And EMTs: she's made videos of emergent sick children that you can use to get a better handle on how to react in those rare cases where you encounter them.
Interview with the parents of an infant too young to be vaccinated who wound up with whooping cough. The CDC traced it back to her older brother's high school. I am SO GLAD I just got my booster shots, even if I had a crappy reaction to them:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/interviews/fontan.html