Posted by 2courtneyb on October 24, 2009 at 8:33pm
On Saturday President Obama signed a proclamation. A proclamation is a formal public statement. The proclamation that stated that swine flu is a nation emergency. This proclamation gives the health chief permission to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to make treatments go faster and to help keep safe the people that don’t have H1N1. Some hospitals have drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics for screening and to treat people who have H1N1. The whole point of this is to keep people who have H1N1 out of emergency rooms so that they don’t spread it on to other people and make them sick.On April 26 the administration said that H1N1 was a public emergency. By saying this there was a shipment of around 12 million doses of flu- fighting medications. They got this from a federal stockpile. They sent the doses of flu-fighting medications to states just incase a lot of people got it. At that time there were only 20 confirmed cases of H1N1 in the United States.On Friday officials said that the H1N1 is more widespread then it has ever been. It has resulted in more than 1,000 deaths in the United States. Someone named Frieden looked into some things and found out that there have been more than 20,000 people hospitalized from H1N1. 46 states now have widespread cases of H1N1. They only states without it are Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, and South Carolina. This years flu vaccine will not protect you from the H1N1. A different vaccine is needed for H1N1.I think it is very scary how many people are getting H1N1. A lot of people at school have been gone but I think that most of them just had the flu even though they said they had H1N1. I think it was a good idea for patients with H1N1 not to go into hospitals and they can just go to drive-thrus and drive-up tents. Hopefully that will help not get as many people sick with it. One thing that confuses me is how on TV and on the internet they call it swine flu but it’s supposed to be called H1N1.
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