Re: pH1N1 Deaths in Texas by County - 2013-2014 Influenza Season
pH1N1
Data Sparsity
Egg Passage
Winter 2013
2014-01-18-21:30
At the WeekEnd,
Atlanta
A December Void
During the minimal
pH1N1 case count in the Northern Hemisphere's 2012 season and
post-season, the
US CDC demonstrated the experimental importance of
Egg Passage strategies. Variant polymorphisms known to drive
deep lung involvement in humans were surfaced repeatedly from
quasi-species. That egg-based experimentation was considered valuable and was pursued throughout much of 2013, but evidently not to quantify the
actual circulating
pH1N1 viral population . . . because the production came to a
full halt at the moment that the US flu season's
high fatality rates became public due to an
unexpected re-emergence of
pH1N1.
Prior to the beginning of the present US season, experimental devotion was clear with
seventeen sequences published on
Egg Passaging having sample dates
BETWEEN seasons, a much-appreciated and long overdue analysis bed. That high interest from the depositing organisation, however,
waned just as the infective period of
actionable usefulness began. After the four mid-November US samples from
egg-based passages (concentrated six day period), no further information has been provided.
Silence is NOT Golden
Few explanations satisfy the fact of
publication quiescence . . .
Few indeed, unless we consider that the
intent of this egg-based benchwork may have been to suggest that the dangerous polymorphisms were "
artifacts", a
managed message stream flowing from these agencies since 2009 via all outbound portals. Even a
passing view of their results shows genetic
incongruity to that hypothesis. The public health monopoly's campaign to marginalise the experimental evidence with their tiresome, "
artifact of egg passaging" explanation
cannot be supported by their genetic outputs.
Flashfires of
dominant pH1N1 populations carrying accumulations of those dangerous polymorphisms began as early as the summer of 2013 and then impacted with full force in
December 2013. The
High-CFR Upsilon subclade's
polymorphic set
re-emerged. As individual geographies moved into the highest fatality and severity yet seen since modern records have been collected, the public health leaders responded by markedly
reducing usable surveillance.
Eight Weeks
During the period from November 19, 2013 to today,
no sample has been published with a sequence generated upon an
Egg-Based Passage strategy.
During this predictable epidemic with
geographically-focal high severity and high fatality, the most
relevant information has been
withheld for
eight weeks.
By those we've trusted to protect our children's lives.
During
4 weeks of
fatality intensity,
only one sequence has been deposited covering the geography and time period of the
high intensity events.
Are we able to measure intent from these actions? Are we satisfied with
political utility being the
primary measure of our public health organisations?
More importantly, is
mission failure driving this silence?
WHO decides. We'd like to see.
And it can't wait
another eight weeks.
