Attention Journalists: One Model for Vaccine Priority

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http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/events/2006_disease-disaster-democ/speakers/roundtable_1/rndtbl1bkgrnd.html

NVAC Recommended Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Priority Groups [4]
<table style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Priority Groups</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Approximate Number
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="5" style="white-space: normal;">Priority Group 1</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="2" style="white-space: normal;">A
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Health care workers (HCWs) providing direct patient care, essential healthcare support personnel</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">9 million</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Key influenza vaccine and drug plant employees
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">40,000</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">B</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">High-risk patients over age 65 with a chronic condition that increases the risk of a severe influenza infection, patients aged 6 months to 64 years with two such chronic conditions, and people hospitalized in the past year with influenza, pneumonia, or a chronic condition</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">25.8 million
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">C
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Pregnant women and people in a household with infants or severely immune-compromised patients</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">10.7 million
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">D</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Key government leaders and critical public health pandemic responders
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">151,000</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="2" style="white-space: normal;">Priority Group 2
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">A</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">All seniors, anyone with a chronic condition, and children aged 6 to 23 months
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">59 million</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">B
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Other public health emergency responders and critical infrastructure personnel, including utility and some transportation workers
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">8.5 million
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Priority Group 3</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Key government health decision-makers and funeral home workers</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">500,000
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Priority Group 4
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">Healthy individuals aged 2 to 64 years
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="white-space: normal;">180 million</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Re: Attention Journalists: One Model for Vaccine Priority

The plan mention on the US official pandemic site:

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/vaccine/prioritization.html

<table cellpading="2" class="MyTable" width="700" border="0" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><th>

LEVEL

</th><th valign="top">

Homeland & National Security (HNS)

</th></tr><tr class="color1"><td>

A

</td><td valign="top">

• Deployed and mission critical personnel

</td></tr><tr class="color2"><td>

B

</td><td valign="top">

• Essential support and sustainment personnel
• Intelligence services
• Border protection personnel
• National Guard personnel (who are not already included in Level A)
• Other domestic national security personnel

</td></tr><tr class="color1"><td>

C

</td><td valign="top">

• Remaining active duty military and essential support personnel

</td></tr></tbody></table>
<table cellpading="2" class="MyTable" width="700" border="0" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><th>

LEVEL

</th><th valign="top">Health Care & Community Support Services (HC/CSS)
</th></tr><tr class="color1"><td>

A

</td><td valign="top">

• Public health personnel
• Inpatient health care providers
• Outpatient and home health care providers
• Health care providers in long-term care facilities (LTCFs)

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B

</td><td valign="top">

• Community support services and emergency management personnel

</td></tr><tr class="color1"><td>

C

</td><td valign="top">

• Other important health care personnel

</td></tr></tbody></table>
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LEVEL

</th><th valign="top">

Critical Infrastructure (CI)

</th></tr><tr class="color1"><td>

A

</td><td valign="top">

• Emergency Medical Services personnel
• Law enforcement personnel
• Fire services personnel
• Manufacturers of pandemic vaccine, antiviral drugs, and other key pandemic response materials
• Key government leaders

</td></tr><tr class="color2"><td>

B

</td><td valign="top">

• Energy sector personnel (electricity and natural gas)
• Communications personnel (telephony and IT)
• Water sector personnel (potable and waste water)
• Government personnel

</td></tr><tr class="color1"><td>

C

</td><td valign="top">

• Transportation sector personnel
• Food and agriculture sector personnel
• Banking and finance sector personnel
• Pharmaceutical sector personnel
• Chemical sector personnel
• Oil sector personnel
• Postal and shipping sector personnel
• Other important government personnel

</td></tr></tbody></table>
<table cellpading="2" class="MyTable" width="700" border="0" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><th>

LEVEL

</th><th valign="top">General Population (GP)
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A

</td><td valign="top">

• Pregnant women
• Infants and toddlers, 6 ? 35 months old

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B

</td><td valign="top">

• Household contacts of infants under 6 months old
• Children 3 ? 18 years old with high-risk medical conditions
• Children 3 ? 18 years old without high-risk medical conditions

</td></tr><tr class="color1"><td>

C

</td><td valign="top">

• High risk persons 19 ? 64 years old
• Persons 65 years and older

</td></tr><tr class="color2"><td>

D

</td><td valign="top">

• Healthy adults, 19 ? 64 years old, not included in other categories

</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Re: Attention Journalists: One Model for Vaccine Priority

If you've read the Senate sub-commitee on Homeland Security and the Pandemic transcript, you now realize that they must wait to create the vaccine once they believe that the strain is no longer changing too much. That way they can inoculate the most amount of people. Let's say that they isolate the strain and making enough seed stock to begin to produce the vaccine by August 2009. It will take until February 2010 to create enough stock. That's six months after the August window for becoming reintroduced into the USA. Perhaps September at the outset (if the flu ever left at all).

Now they think it will be two shots. How would we possibly inoculate everyone? Where are the personnel to do so...twice to boot. We've never ever tried to vaccinate so many people.

Where is the cash coming from to pay these supposed health workers?