The Obama administration is moving forward with plans for a government-funded swine flu vaccination campaign that calls for manufacturing as many as 600 million doses of vaccine against the new H1N1 virus, “an effort that would dwarf seasonal-flu campaigns,” reports The Wall Street Journal. According to initial plans, however, seniors are not on the list for the first round of shots against the swine flu. Until the vaccination becomes more readily available this fall, you can implement several strategies for protecting residents …
Here are resources from ALFA that include strategies for protecting residents from swine flu and seasonal flu:
- Pandemic Swine Flu Adviser
- ALFA’s Executive Insights (Case Study) – “The Path of Best Resistance”. Two senior living executives weigh in on a scenario about protecting residents from seasonal flu.
As reported by ALFA Update, health officials say the swine flu has infected nearly 1 million Americans and that the virus seems to be deadliest to people 65 and older. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
- Swine flu appears to be deadliest to people 65 and older, with deaths in more than 2 percents of older people infected.
- The average age of swine flu patients is 12; the average age for hospitalized patients is 20; and for individuals who have died, it was 37.
- The United States has roughly half of the world’s swine flu cases, with nearly 280,000 reported to the CDC so far. The U.S. count includes 3,065 hospitalizations and 127 deaths.
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