The swine flu case of 1976 forever reduced confidence in public health pronouncements from the government and helped foster cynicism about federal policy makers that continues to this day.

Joseph Califano, one of the earliest to use the word "fiasco" in describing the 1976 swine flu affair, came to the conclusion that it all couldn't have been avoided. Califano, whom President Carter appointed Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare after beating Ford in the November election, said the doctors had no choice but to err on the side of the caution.

In "The Epidemic That Never Was," Califano said that faced with the threat of another killer plague with the potential to end millions of lives, the doctors were right to seek an inoculation program.

1976 wasn't even an epidemic but the government was scared to death of a repeat of the 1918 Pandemic. This is a pandemic now, we haven't had one in 41 years and that is a fact. Perhaps you should take the time to find out what the 1918 Pandemic was all about. A good place to start is by watching the PBS documentary on the 1918 Pandemic. Here is the link -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYQSxtFLEg&fe...

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