African-American community and the local health department

Parkview Hospital has stepped in to save residents from the H1N1 pandemic. The Clinic at Carew Medical Park opened it doors for the dispersal of the H1N1 mist and injectable vaccine after it became apparent that the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department was ill prepared for the demand of the vaccine with over 4, 800 showing up for the spray mist.

Immunization Clinic closed until futher notice
The Immunization Clinic on the 5th floor of the City-County will be closed for until further notice. Children who need routine vaccinations need to contact their private health care provider, or visit a Super Shot location. (bold print added).

FW-AC Health Department wanted to serve the public as simply a public information service only agency in combating the flu. When the public expects the local health department to administrate the vaccines in a timely fashion. But these folks are only window dressing ghost like employees at the local health department in Fort Wayne.

It is not when is the H1N1 is going to hit. It is how wide spread will H1N1 be and how many deaths will occur from the influence virus. The strain is spreading so fast that the state no longer is keeping track of confirmed H1N1 cases.

The state, which tallied confirmed H1N1 cases this spring and summer, has stopped keeping an official count. Officials know the virus is so widespread -- about 6,000 in Indiana likely have had H1N1 -- that keeping track of the mild flu strain is not worth the expense, Monroe said.

Parkview Health is providing space for the clinic at Carew Medical Park, located at 1818 Carew Street on monday for the the injectable vaccine. How folks will response to this vaccine is under determined. Those eligible to take the shot will be young children and young pregnant women. This will leave many in the African-American community who suffer from asthma, diabetes or heart disease still vulnerable. Yep, I said it.

Individuals aged 6 months to 24 years of age, pregnant women, and people aged 25 to 64 years of age with chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes, or heart disease are at higher risk for complications from this infection.

This is not me saying this, this is the CDC and Indiana government saying this. So what is wrong with our local healtlh department?

FW-AC Health Department is both understaffed and incompetent to administrate a mass inoculations against the new strain of the flu. 81 death has already occurred and the flu season has not started according to report from CNN on October 18, 2009 at 4:45 P.M. But FW-AC Health Department will focus only on pregnant women and children up to 18 years old.

One of the reason for this targeted small sample group is because the air borne disease will be carried into day cares and schools impacting other children. The disease will spread like wildfire through the schools. The disease will than travel into homes.


The best local health department wanted to do was pretend that it was on top of thing with their fake educate panel. You will see the posting of signs saying thing like, wash hands regularly and keep children with a fever at home away from other children. But the truth of the matter, Fort Wayne has already been exposed to the disease.

Make sure you will be prepared for this disease and the next strain after H1N1.