11: The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies

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Some facts from Project Censored

How much do you know about the H1N1 virus? If you are not a doctor or pharmacist, you are probably thinking to yourself "It was that horrifying pandemic". H1N1 caused for widespread panic and fear throughout the world, but upon closer examination, many of the claims made by the World Health Organization seem to be based on weak and incomplete data.

Why? Well, money... of course! The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created and used data to grossly exaggerate the need for an expensive and unnecessary vaccine aimed at creating profits for the pharmaceutical industry-- not protecting Americans.



Here are a few essential facts Project Censored points out:

1. The WHO claimed that a worldwide public health emergency had unfolded on an unprecedented scale in 2009, and 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine were needed to stop the spread.
2. In some countries the WHO recommended that the H1N1 vaccination be mandatory, regardless of the faulty data used.
3. There was no uniform system for collecting data on suspected swine flu victims in the US. Without a uniform system, how can accurate statistics be retrieved?
4. Only a small percentage of the reported cases from the CDC were "confirmed" by laboratory tests.
5. A Phase 4 level of severity was declared by the WHO on April 27th. By June 11th, it had been raised to a Phase 6 (the level of an actual pandemic) without significant evidence.
6. As a result of false reports, "...the pharmaceutical industry gained massive profits from Americans who purchased an unnecessary and potentially dangerous vaccine in large quantities." (63)

Let's think about this. With such an abrupt change in numbers in scientific data collection (going from a Phase 4 to Phase 6 in less than two months) one would think the WHO would be a little startled. However, quite the opposite happened. Following the Phase 6 pandemic announcement, the CDC decided that data collection of individual confirmed and probable cases was no longer necessary to determine the spread of swine flu.

Now this is not to say that H1N1 did not exist, it is understood that there were deaths caused by the virus, but an exaggeration of severity is definitely in play.

News Coverage

The manipulation of such data to justify a worldwide public health emergency is rarely discussed in the media. Below are a handful of titles I discovered through LexisNexis, a company providing computer-assisted legal research services, proving that this is truly a censored story.

* H1N1 Hit Harder than Seasonal Flu
*Not just a shot in the dark; The H1N1 vaccine is an effective way to avoid getting- and spreading- the flu
*NO NEED TO EXTEND TEST CAPACITY
*Stop the conflusion: Here are the H1N1 facts
-This article discussed why it is normal for statistics and numbers to be fuzzy and always changing. It's overall argument was that everyone should get the H1N1 flu shot.

But if these articles are saying that H1N1 truly was everywhere... where's the argument against it? Watch the video below.