Their paper reports that in January 2010, the CDC estimated the percentage of health care personnel who received vaccines was only 61.9% for seasonal flu, 37.1% for swine flu, and only 37.1% received both the seasonal and swine flu vaccines.
However, it's not like the industry is suffering from a lack of flu shot customers even when health care workers refuse to get them. In 2009 alone, multi-national corporations took home profits of $2.8 billion in influenza vaccine sales, according to an October 2010 report by Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder of the NationalVaccineInformationCenter.
By comparison, since the Vaccine Injury Act was passed roughly 25 years ago, the vaccine court has paid out less than $2 billion. Of the more than 13,550 petitions filed covering all vaccines, compensation for injuries was only awarded in about 2,500 cases.
Of course the estimates in the paper, if true at all, would have come from the same CDC that was run for years by Julie Gerberding and has put out the trumped up claim year after year that 36,000 people in the US die of the flu annually, with the death number never changing even when vaccination rates greatly increase.
In a December 21, 2009 Pharmalot Blog, Ed Silverman reported that Gerberding, "who until this year was the director of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was named president of Merck's vaccine division."
As the former "top dog" at the CDC, she "has plenty of experience overseeing the selection of recommended immunizations," FiercePharma noted on December 22, 2009.
"Autism activists, particularly those who believe vaccines are a primary cause of regressive autism, are often derided for conspiratorial comments about the CDC and Big Pharma," JB Handley pointed out on the Pharmalot blog.
"This one is making us look more sane every day," he said.
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