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Boston launches flu shot tracking
City to pinpoint areas of low rates of vaccination
By Stephen Smith
Globe Staff / November 21, 2008

+ Using technology originally developed for mass disasters, Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment - one of the first in the country - aimed at eventually creating a citywide registry of everyone who has had a flu vaccination.

The resulting vaccination map would allow swift intervention in neighborhoods left vulnerable to the fast-moving respiratory illness.

The trial starts this afternoon, when several hundred people are expected to queue up for immunizations at the headquarters of the Boston Public Health Commission. Each of them will get a bracelet printed with a unique identifier code. Information about the vaccine's recipients, and the shot, will be entered into handheld devices similar to those used by delivery truck drivers.

Infectious disease specialists in Boston and elsewhere predicted that the registry approach could prove even more useful if something more sinister strikes: a bioterrorism attack or the long-feared arrival of a global flu epidemic. In such crises, the registry could be used to track who received a special vaccine or antidote to a deadly germ.

"Anything you can do to better pinpoint who's vaccinated and who's not, that's absolutely vital," said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at the University of Minnesota. "I wish more cities were doing this kind of thing."

Boston is believed to be the first city to embrace this particular approach to tracking vaccinations against the seasonal flu, estimated to kill 36,000 people each year in the United States, principally the elderly.

But when Boston bought the monitoring system from a Milwaukee company in 2006, emergency authorities had a far different use in mind: tracking people injured in big fires, plane crashes, or other disasters.

"When there's a large catastrophic event, people end up in a variety of healthcare facilities," said Dr. Anita Barry, Boston's director of communicable disease control. "Of course, their family members and loved ones are trying to find out where they are and how they're doing."

To see how well the system would work, emergency crews tested it at the Boston Marathon and the Fourth of July extravaganza on the Esplanade. The trial proved successful.

"If we can make it work in the Boston Marathon medical tent, then you have to think about making it so that it can work in other environments as well - whether it's a community clinic or a doctor's office or a flu shot clinic," said Rich Serino, chief of Boston Emergency Medical Services. Thus, the idea to use the registry as a flu vaccine tracker was born.

Every autumn in medical offices across the country, flu vaccine floods in. The perishable medical product must be delivered to millions in a matter of months.Continued...

Keeping track of that cache of vaccine - and which patients are getting it - is a daunting proposition.

In some medical offices, the information is entered into electronic medical records. At Boston's health department, nurses fill out paper forms.

But there's never been any way to systematically monitor whether, for example, Dorchester has lower vaccination rates than the North End.

"When you're working in one clinic, you don't have a good sense of that," said Dr. Alfred DeMaria, top disease doctor at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. "But if you're tracking multiple clinics in real time, you can see where the uptake is better and where it's less, and then focus on outreach."

Today's experiment, which does not require any additional direct spending, is a first step toward that.

When people arrive for their shots, they will get an ID bracelet with a barcode. Next, basic information - name, age, gender, address - will be entered into the patient tracking database. There will be electronic records, too, of who gave the vaccine and whether it was injected into the right arm or the left, and time-stamped for that day.

The resulting trove of data could be used to figure out why some patients had to wait longer than others to be vaccinated. "When all is said and done," said Jun Davantes, director of product management at EMSystems, the company that makes the technology, "Boston will be able to identify where there are certain bottlenecks in the process and hopefully improve it the next time around."

Ultimately, city health authorities said, they envision creating a network across the city that would allow public and private providers of flu shots to add data to a registry.

But acknowledging patients' privacy concerns, officials promised that if a citywide system were implemented, only a limited amount of information would be gathered - all sitting behind an encrypted firewall.

"I have had people say, 'Oh, that's so big brother,' " said Laura Williams, EMS deputy chief of staff. "But in truth, the unique identifier is unique to the incident. It's not like you will go to the hospital, and they'll say, 'You're the one who got the flu vaccine at 10 o'clock yesterday at the Boston Public Health Commission.' "

Stephen Smith can be reached at [email protected].

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"In such crises, the registry could be used to track who received a special vaccine or antidote to a deadly germ."

Well now, the fact that they are walking around live and well should give them a good indication that they have received a "special antidote" to a "deadly germ". whatever
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gun confiscation must soon follow or at the same time. it's total control and i won't be going along
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gun confiscation must soon follow or at the same time. it's total control and i won't be going along
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They are not taking the guns for Christ sake! FBI reported over a million new registrations in August!
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Pin this please!
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gun confiscation must soon follow or at the same time. it's total control and i won't be going along


They are not taking the guns for Christ sake! FBI reported over a million new registrations in August!
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No kidding. Talk about a house to house battle. Won't happen.
Well maybe in Mass. but not in Texas!!!
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:bumpsine: :pingpong:
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the shit just got real.
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Swine Flu bracelets mentioned here:

Thread: This soldier is back from a swine flu drill, a holocaust is coming to America this fall
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PIN THIS

This is an outrage!!!
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Average flu season in America kills roughly 40,000 people every year. Swine Flu has killed roughly a 1000 over the past year throughout the entire planet.

You gotta ask yourself why all the hoopla? All influenza's carry a mortality rate. So far this one's comparable to about the amount of people that die annually from Bee stings in America.

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Holy Bat Shit~!

wtf
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RAGE OUT TIME!
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I just realized - this article is from 11/28/2001 ?
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OMG, health officials and those who make these decisions are in for some trouble.

I fear their lives will be in danger by their citizens if they force their beliefs and ideals on their populace.
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I just realized - this article is from 11/28/2001 ?
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November 21, 2008
"No guts, no glory!"
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I just realized - this article is from 11/28/2001 ?
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Nov 2008
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I wonder if Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at the University of Minnesota can say,..."pit of fire"....

I'm sure God will have mercy on him....

not
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I just realized - this article is from 11/28/2001 ?

November 21, 2008
 Quoting: CRYSTAL in MATRIX

LOL ~ thanks for the correction - sometimes, I'm upside down and backwards - fingers move too fast...
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I don't physically pause to pray very often.....but I just did.


This is really it????!!!!! A f'n bracelet with a barcode.

I guess these A$$holes never heard of Microsoft Access if they would like to manually sort out data.
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PIN THIS SHIZZZIT!!!
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Ok, I'm really confused about this article...

Its date is from last November - it states, "several hundred people are expected to queue up for immnizations at the headquarters of the Boston Public Health Commission. Each of them will get a bracelet printed with a unique identifier code. Information about the vaccine's recipients, and the shot, will be entered into handheld devices similar to those used by delivery truck driver."

"When people arrive for their shots, they will get an ID bracelet with a barcode. Next, basic information - name, age, gender, address - will be entered into the patient tracking database. There will be electronic records, too, of who gave the vaccine and whether it was injected into the right arm or the left, and time-stamped for that day."


The title of this thread is kind of misleading - "People injected with H1N1 Vaccine?"

Don't get me wrong here, I feel it has merit but... this happened long enough ago to see if it continues today and how the 'experiment' went...

I think this deserves more investigation... What, is this some kind of immunization bracelet your child gets with his shots and wears the rest of his life?

This just doesn't make much sense to me...
Can anybody provide further info on the after effects of this 'experiment' please?
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Average flu season in America kills roughly 40,000 people every year. Swine Flu has killed roughly a 1000 over the past year throughout the entire planet.

You gotta ask yourself why all the hoopla? All influenza's carry a mortality rate. So far this one's comparable to about the amount of people that die annually from Bee stings in America.
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That is why the government is pushing the death vaccine , to scare people into taking the untested contaminated vaccine which is 1000 times more deadly than the actual swine flu.

Big Brother wants you dead.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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Never mind my previous post... I just verified it myself and now I'm SCARED~!!!
Holy Toledo - heaven help us..........


[link to www.bloomberg.com]

New York, L.A., Boston Set Up Swine Flu Vaccination Centers


By Tom Randall and Shannon Pettypiece

Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- New York, Los Angeles and Boston are setting up swine flu centers to administer vaccinations as part of a plan to slow the spread of the virus that U.S. health officials have said may infect half the nation’s population.

New York will offer free immunizations at elementary schools and distribute the vaccine through about 100 health clinics, according to plans released today by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office. Los Angeles will give out shots at its fair grounds, Boston is letting city employees leave work for two hours to get vaccinated and Chicago’s schools plan to track real-time attendance for the first time to identify hotspots, spokesmen for those municipalities said.

Cities nationwide are completing plans to distribute the H1N1 vaccine, which the U.S. will provide for free. The shots are being tested and will be available in mid-October, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Patients will still have to pay to have the vaccine administered unless states and cities agree to cover those costs, as New York has.

“We are going to make sure we take care of our people first, then figure out how to pay for it later,” Bloomberg said at a news conference today. “Like a hurricane, a big snow storm, or a building collapse, this is something that could happen in this city, and something we want to be prepared for.”

New York’s vaccination program will cost about $30 million and provide shots for about 1.4 million students at public and private schools, said Bloomberg, who is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.

Fastest-Moving Pandemic

Swine flu has become the world’s fastest-moving influenza pandemic, sweeping across 177 countries in the four months since it was first identified, the CDC said. Lab tests have confirmed H1N1 in 2,185 deaths and more than 209,000 infections, though most infected patients aren’t tested, according to the Geneva- based World Health Organization.

H1N1 may infect 30 to 50 percent of the U.S. population, according to planning scenario released by outside advisers to the White House on Aug. 24.

The U.S. is already undergoing the highest flu rates for this time of year since the 1968 Hong Kong flu, said Joe Quimby, a CDC spokesman, in an Aug. 30 telephone interview. While the U.S. flu season normally runs from November to March, swine flu continued to circulate during the summer with outbreaks seen in at least 80 summer camps, the CDC said.

1 Million New Yorkers

The virus has infected as many as 1 million New Yorkers, or about 12 percent of the city’s population, Thomas Farley, the city’s health commissioner, said in a news conference today. Most patients have had symptoms similar to those in seasonal flu, though younger people had elevated rates of infection and were more likely to develop severe infections, Farley said.

New York schools will offer an inhaled form of the vaccine for most children, and make shots available for kids with conditions that prevent use of the flu mist, such as asthma or developmental disabilities. All vaccinations will be voluntary and require a parent’s consent, the city said.

Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest system, will provide every classroom two bottles of hand sanitizer to start the school year, and begin real-time attendance tracking for the first time, said Monique Bond, a district spokeswoman. The district has no plans to provide free flu shots to its more than 400,000 students, who return to classes Sept. 8, she said.

“If that becomes the recommendation, we would be able to mobilize,” Bond said.

Through Aug. 28, Illinois had 405 confirmed cases and 17 deaths.

Chicago Schools

Last spring, Chicago closed two schools because of flu. Bond said she expects the district will be able to avoid such closings by better isolating cases. If schools are closed, the state recommendation calls for dismissal of students for 5 to 7 days, and then a reassessment on whether to resume classes after that period.

Public health authorities in King County, Washington -- which includes Seattle -- created a 12-page comic book about pandemic flu. Called “No Ordinary Flu.” Available in 21 languages, it follows a young boy whose great uncle died in the 1918 pandemic, the deadliest outbreak. The story shows how people can help prevent a recurrence by staying home when sick and washing hands frequently.

Cities and school districts are bracing for flu cases to rise as pupils return to school. Swine flu has infected hundreds of students in at least 17 U.S. colleges in the first weeks of school, health and education authorities said.

Los Angeles Program

Los Angeles County, with a population of 9.8 million, has set up a program to distribute free swine flu vaccinations at more than 70 sites “as an important backstop for people who don’t have other sources of medical care,” said Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, in a telephone interview.

Those sites include schools, fairgrounds, neighborhood centers and community clinics, and are intended to ease distribution to people who lack access to doctors, Fielding said. Some sites may include drive-thru access, he said.

Getting a large number of school children vaccinated will be challenging, Fielding said.

“It’s extremely difficult to get young kids to get a signed release form and then bring it back to school,” he said. “I think we are better prepared for this than we’ve ever been for an epidemic or pandemic. But without much clarity on when we will get the vaccine and how much, we have to be flexible.”

Distributing the Vaccine

The U.S. government is paying for shots, nasal sprays and related supplies. It’s up to states to decide how to distribute the vaccine and who should pay for the doctor visits, according to the CDC.

The U.S. government took the unusual step of purchasing all of the swine flu vaccine for the country and plans to distribute it to state and local health departments when the shots are available. The vaccine is likely to require two doses, given three weeks apart, and patients won’t develop immunity to the virus for an additional two weeks, according to the CDC.

This month, Boston will set up flu clinics at union halls, churches, community health centers, elderly housing developments and other public gathering places. City of Boston employees will get two hours of paid leave to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza, and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said other businesses should do the same.

23,000 Bostonians

From April to June, Boston saw 23,000 residents with influenza-like illnesses, said Ann Scales, a spokeswoman for the Boston Public Health Commission. The city’s health commission has said it expects about 20 percent of Boston’s residents to experience an influenza-like illness this flu season.

The city is aiming to hold free vaccination clinics once or twice a week, more frequently than in previous years, Scales said. Boston is also encouraging hospitals to provide free flu shots, “to be a good neighbor,” she said.

Swine flu outbreaks shouldn’t close U.S. schools in the fall, which starts later this month, unless so many students or teachers get sick that it interferes with teaching or puts students at risk, according to guidelines released by the CDC on Aug. 7. The agency is encouraging states to set up vaccination clinics in schools, as well as distributing the shot through health clinics and private doctors.

San Francisco Reaction

San Francisco plans to establish up to 20 vaccination centers at or near schools to provide free swine flu vaccinations for children and other groups at higher risk for the illness, said Susan Fernyak, director of communicable disease control and prevention for the city’s Department of Public Health.

The clinics would open after the city receives an expected first shipment of 80,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine in October, she said. The centers would work with schools to provide vaccinations to children in the morning and later in the day to others at high risk from the flu, including pregnant women, health care workers and emergency personnel, Fernyak said.

“Our vision is these will be 12-hour clinics in or near schools, so that children can easily get to them” Fernyak said. “We’re creating a whole packet of release forms to distribute to families.”

To contact the reporters on this story: Tom Randall in New York at [email protected]; Shannon Pettypiece in New York at +1- [email protected]

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Of course - the Boston information continues with this:

I think it is fair to say that the Massachusetts Senate's 36-0 approval of the Pandemic Preparadness Bill S2028, as reported in the Boston Herald, is a trial benchmark. It awaits consideration by the Massachusetts House.

Section 95 clearly states:

An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined…

Any person who knowingly violates an order for isolation or quarantine shall be punished by imprisonment of not more than 30 days and may be subject to a civil fine of not more than $1,000 per day that the violation continues.

The bracelet fits into these schemes.

The video clip, aired on NECN Boston, confirmed the details to the 30 day / $1000 day penalty.

The Liberty Preservation Association of Massachusetts is successfully challenging its constitutionality. [link to www.masslpa.org]
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Get a Shot-Win a Free Tracking Bracelet! Pandemic High Fashion Accessory

Picture of the device;

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I don't understand why they need bracelets. Surely people will know if they've had the shot or not. What does the bracelet do?

Only let people into the supermarket or the office if they're wearing a bracelet? Oops, that will probably scare somebody.
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Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment - one of the first in the country - aimed at eventually creating a citywide registry of everyone who has had a flu vaccination.





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