Jason Kottke has a great post on how the H1N1 vaccine is made. The most striking feature of the H1N1 flu vaccine manufacturing process is the 1,200,000,000 chicken eggs required to make the 3 billion doses of vaccine that may be required worldwide. There are entire chicken farms in the US and around the world [...]
H1N1
H1N1
Well Wendy, Oliver, and I caught H1N1 (for those of you who are following on Twitter this is redundant). Oliver and Mark had been vaccinated and while Mark was fine, Oliver was not. Wendy and I also got horrific secondary infections along with it which made us even sicker. All I can say is that [...]
The Scandal of Two Tier Health Care in Canada
So the Calgary Flames jumped to the head of the line when it came to H1N1 vaccinations. Are we surprised? It’s long been a practice in Canada where professional and semi-pro athletes get preferential medical treatment. They get a MRI within hours while the rest of us wait months. Elective surgery comes within days while [...]
