HONOLULU The state Department of Healths annual Stop Flu at School program began last week and continues in 185 public schools statewide through Nov. 27.
HONOLULU — The state Department of Health’s annual Stop Flu at School program began last week and continues in 185 public schools statewide through Nov. 27.
The voluntary program offers free flu shots to students in kindergarten through eighth grade enrolled at participating schools. About 31,500 students are expected to be vaccinated through the program this year.
“We are glad schools and parents continue to appreciate and find value in this program,” said DOH Director Bruce Anderson. “The number of students signed up to receive their flu shots through the Stop Flu at School program has been increasing in recent years.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends an annual flu vaccination for everyone ages six months and older. Since 2010, CDC estimates that between 130 and 1,200 children (younger than 18 years) have died from flu each year.
“Vaccination is our best defense against the flu. It can help prevent illness but, more importantly, it decreases the risk of severe illness, which can result in hospitalizations and death,” said Dr. Sarah Park, state epidemiologist.
“While there were no influenza-associated pediatric deaths reported in Hawaii during the 2018-2019 season, children, even healthy children, are hospitalized or die from the flu every year in the U.S,” Park said.
Since flu can cause severe illness in people of all ages, DOH encourages everyone to talk to their healthcare provider about the vaccine and consider getting vaccinated. For those unable to be vaccinated through the Stop Flu at School program, flu vaccine is available through healthcare provider offices and clinics as well as pharmacies, for those older than age 11 years.
Aloha Kakou,
In order to get yourself or your children a flu shot it requires faith, Blind Faith really, since as a patient one would, or could, hardly know anything in depth on the matter in that part of the Disease Care System that produces, distributes and literally injects some strange laboratory altered Disease into your body.
Just as a side note, some scientists are concerned with the ingredients in vaccines since some are known to contain the heavy metal mercury which damages the brain. Who’d want that if they knew it was in their vaccine injected into themself by perhaps an equally ignorant of the Mercury…nurse.
First of all having Faith, albeit it Blind, in the Disease Care System, which is erroneously called the Health Care System is part of the accumulation over time to the exposure to the medical disease care system relying on increasing your Blind Faith in a system that by virtue of its own statistics is a failure.
Most sick people take drugs. 80% of the people in our nation take at least one drug a day. 55% of Americans take 4 drugs a day, apparently the additional drugs are taken to combat the side effects of the 1st, 2nd, and/or 3rd drug.
These numbers, percentages of people on drugs, and that is not including the people on opiates, cocaine, fentanyl, meth, or sugar; mean only 2 things, amongst others, and that is that we are a majority of sick people and which makes us a weak nation…and that the Disease Care System, AKA the Health Care System, is failing. And getting worse. And how much it is getting worse is dependent on how much money the Disease Care System is making.
The more people on medical drugs means not only more sick people, but more money being made by the Disease Care System, and results in a sicker weaker nation. Almost self destructive if you think about it. And the ignorant population via their politicians want more of the same, the Right to Disease Care. That’s an Ox that is a Moron. May be the mascots for the Democrats and Republicans should be changed to the Moronic Ox, though that’s not too far off from the Dumb Donkey the Dems already have. Incredible that in all these years the Democrats have relied on a Dumb Donkey as their mascot and no one has even mentioned it…just blind Faith following the Dumb Donkey election after election.
At least they say an elephant never forgets, but you have to ask yourself…how do they know that…?
A Healthy nation should have very few if any people on drugs. The way our politicians are screaming for everyone to have the right to so called mis-named Health Care aka Disease Care, means that people want more drugs, furthering the weakness of our nation, not the strengthening of our nation.
Actual Healthy people do not require drugs. With the amount of people in America on drugs that alone is “dying” proof that fake Health Care and its very real “undercover” Disease Care System is failing, failing our nation, our families, and friends and co-workers.
More and more people are dying younger, getting more and more fatal diseases, more people dying in hospitals, more and more people dying from side effects of the television drug ads warning of those dangers. Oxy Moron.
You see, when colds and flu pass through a classroom, office, warehouse, sports facility or team, or even while shopping at the store, and bacteria and virus are transmitted amongst the people, while all the people are likely infected, especially in closed in areas like a classrooms or offices, some of the people or children do not experience getting symptoms of the cold or flu, etc. They don’t appear to get “sick”.
Why? Because those people without apparent visible signs or symptoms or feelings of sickness, while they may be infected, their immune system is shutting down the invading bacteria or virus, actually that person’s immune system is overwhelming or “nipping” the bacteria or virus “in the bud” so to speak. And that is what a truly functioning immune system is supposed to do. That is stop the spread or multiplication of the bacteria or virus, lock it up so to speak and excrete it from the body. That is the process of internal healing and is the part we do not see nor in many cases not even feel.
For example with say bacteria and maybe even virus, when 2 people are side by side working on the same thing that has contamination with bacteria or virus, maybe its soil, or some infected material of some kind; and somehow both people coincidentally get a cut on one of their fingers…and only one of them gets the accumulation of pus or white cells, that is what we would call an infection in their finger, while the other person with the cut finger just produces a scab to seal off the wound with dried blood and they just undergo the natural, expected, normal, healing process of a cut finger without the apparent look or the effects of infection.
The person with the cut finger, but no visible “infection”, has an immune system that is in top shape and their immune system basically “squashed” or nullified the bacteria or virus, the same bacteria and/or virus their working partner was infected with and produced the effect we refer to as an “infection”.
The good news is that the symptoms people get from a cold or flu are actually the good signs of the person’s immune system ”fighting” the bacteria or virus or whatever has infected them. And this means that that person’s immune system is now internally strengthening and adapting to and overwhelming the bacteria or virus infection, cold, or flu and the result is if you leave a cold or flu alone and do nothing but feed the body water, the carry all mechanism to clean our bodies internally, you will not only get well naturally, but also strengthen your immune system for the next time same foreign bacteria or virus infect your body or even your finger.
You must remember after conception of a new human when the 2 parents cells join together to make 1 cell of a new life of a new human, that that human, you, builds itself into a new baby in approximately 9 months. We are self built and we are self healing all part of the same package of like as a human. The other creatures on earth are self built as well and are self healing.
Not only are we all self built as a human, and we are also self healing, Healing is a complex PROCESS and is 100% under the control of the nervous system. The Reticular System of the brain stem and into the spinal cord plays a role in the Healing Process.
Of course you cannot expect to eat junk food, animal flesh, sugar every day in almost every bite of food, nor chemicals and petrochemicals in and on your food, air, water, and land and expect to have an optimal immune or healing system.
And you cannot take injected laboratory altered diseases in vaccines and expect to make your immune system strong. It does not work like that. The Immune System works on its own internally so don’t mess with it or burn it out by overwhelming the immune system with putting garbage and chemicals in your body.
The human body and brain is the most complex thing on earth, yet some people feed it donuts and white bread and alcohol and tobacco…you reap what you sew.
Don’t allow garbage junk food and chemicals into your body, We are God’s creation…us.