H1N1 is no joke — my co-worker’s brother is very ill with it in LA, H1N1 and pneumonia omplications. He is in his mid-50s, therwise healthy, and he is in the ICU.

However. On CBS tonight, they touted a miracle treatment from this one drug that apparently saved one guy’s life from H1N1. His doctor had heard of it but it was still in trials — he got special permission from the FDA to use it to treat his patient. Fair enough. But now it’s on the news and the already fearful public has the name of one drug (from one company) on their lips and they’ll start asking their doctors for it (you can imagine how this one company in the Big Pharma constellation loves this — they love to have thei rdrugs marketed direct to consumers on TV, so that we ask our doctors for specific meds) and the FDA will start to feel public pressure to step up their tests and approve the darn thing BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE AND WE ALL DIE. Big Pharma cheers again. Big Pharma is meanwhile fighting healthcare reform tooth and nail. So Rush is exactly wrong about the H1N1 vaccine.Hysteria feeds Big Pharma which hurts reform. So Rush should actually be pro H1N1 hysteria since he is (I assume) anti-reform.