mass vaccination against influenza A H1N1 in France ???

[bham]

That is to say I wear twice for the same service

Well, a little simplistic ...
Today, the overall cost continues to increase each year. Contributions stagnate ("too many charges"!), Or even regress (layoffs) ...

So mechanical deficit.

We are cutting back at both ends: a) limit certain costs (generics, rationalization / closures of hospital beds, "pro-cutivist" pressures on staff; elsewhere, the service is deteriorating: take a trip to the Emergency Department!); elsewhere, we limit the care - if, if, it already exists b) as politically it is inconceivable to increase the charges, we reduce the support and we transfer to mutuals (which is only a disguised form privatization; too bad for those who do not have one ...

Not so simplistic I think, since the unacknowledged goal is that health becomes more and more a profitable business.
Of course there are more and more high costs for cancer patients, for triple therapies, .... but we persist in doing a curative medicine based on chemistry rather than a preventive medicine or healing based on natural methods. Why is osteopathy only partially recognized? What about posturology? What about magnetism? and treatment with plants? herbalists were decimated by decree, there were many at the beginning of the 20th century.
Why ? Look at the side of chemists, pharmaceutical companies. They were able to lobby effectively, we still see it today with vaccines. The best is that they are undoubtedly at the origin of the epidemic of influenza A and perhaps even AIDS, which allows them to offer their vaccines, masks, etc. A real boon to revive an economy which, anyway, lives only on credit.

When each of us becomes aware of this, maybe things will change in the right direction.

[Christophe]

Has the vaccine been talked about again?

It dates back 1 year but I missed out: http://www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/201 ... 51302.html

[Janic]

We are back for the flu vaccination campaigns: what is it really?
Two ways to read seasonal flu statistics:
http://www.inserm.fr/thematiques/microb ... ion/grippe

Significant seasonal epidemics
2,5 million French people affected each year

© Fotolia
Seasonal flu
Seasonal flu affects 3 to 8% of the French population each year. On average, 2,5 million people are affected each year. The epidemic occurs between November and April, most frequently begins in late December - early January and lasts for approximately 9 weeks. Between 25% and 50% of consultations concern young people under the age of 15. People over 65 represent 5 to 11% of cases but pay the heaviest price, with almost all (90%) of the 1 to 500 annual deaths linked to influenza.

Compared to this one which is interesting for accompanying graphics:
http://www.atoute.org/n/article/grippe- ... rts-d.html

Seasonal flu: 7000 dead according to organizers, 500 according to police
The vagueness around the statistics of influenza mortality blind scientists

among others:
“In practice, the historical study of influenza mortality curves does not support the hypothesis of high vaccine efficacy. This high efficacy would, moreover, be in contradiction with the available scientific evaluations which attribute at best to the seasonal vaccine only a modest effect, assuming there is, on influenza mortality. "

[Ahmed]

Janic, you really don't understand anything!
Contrary to what you claim, influenza vaccination is so effective, that it even protects the relatives of those who are vaccinated!