Re: 3-flu related deaths reported at Cullman
Re: 3-flu related deaths reported at Cullman
CULLMAN — A strain of the H1N1 influenza virus has hit the Cullman area hard in recent weeks, with three flu-related deaths reported at Cullman Regional Medical Center and hundreds of patients testing positive for the flu.
H1N1 seems to be particularly affecting those between 20 to 50 years old, and the three victims who died last month were all under 55 years old, said Dr. G. Scott Warner, a pulmonologist at Chest Medicine of Cullman. The flu usually poses the greatest threat to the young and elderly.
Warner said he wasn’t sure why the flu was affecting those between 20 and 50 years old more significantly, but he speculated that the age group is “less vigilant about getting their vaccinations and preventing the flu that older and younger populations.”
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three flu-related deaths reported at Cullman Regional Medical Center and hundreds of patients testing positive for the flu.
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Dr. G. Scott Warner
Pulmonologist
Chest Medicine of Cullman
'Warner said he
wasn’t sure why the flu was affecting those between 20 and 50 years old more significantly, but he
speculated that the age group is “less vigilant about getting their vaccinations and preventing the flu that older and younger populations.”
Warner
did not know for certain whether the patients who died had the flu vaccine, but he
speculated none of them did.'
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These types of
base-less speculations, from a
specialist who admittedly cannot professionally attribute a cause, are the very nature of why more citizens will
die unnecessarily. The individuals that we appoint and trust with our lives are now blaming the victim instead of taking the reins to find a solution to these unnecessary deaths from a
known pathogen that
predictably sweeps through the population
every single year. Doctors bury their failures . . . good for the doctor, bad for the citizen.
Not only is this specialist and medical school professor willing to comment on the active age group, but he tacitly suggests that an unknown vaccine status contributed to
all of the deaths?
The very essence of audacity is to
casually address a conclusion to a topic where one has
no definable information. In this case, the topic is one of 3 deaths, probably neighbors, a matter of sensitivity and importance.
If the doctor does not serve the patient in a time of crisis,
who does the doctor serve?
Cullman, Alabama has a population under 15,000 residents.
