In an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (9/17), Jim Fortenberry, MD, pediatrician-in-chief at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, discusses how, "time after time, parents are bringing children with flu symptoms to the emergency" department "when it's not an emergency." Dr. Fortenberry points out that even though the H1N1 "flu is a new strain, at present it is acting just like a mild-to-moderate case of the flu with the same type of outcomes as seasonal influenza." Therefore, he suggests that "parents take away that H1N1 label and name, and think of this as the flu." COMMENT: Overkill by the medical politicians overloads the system, time after time. We saw the same behavior with swine flu in 1976 when the White House insisted everyone be vaccinated, yet evidence for severe outcome was missing.
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