To declare a pandemic, the world health organization (who) changed its definition. Organization sowed panic, greatly exaggerated the extent of the danger. Her decision was influenced by the experts associated with the financial interests of major pharmaceutical companies earn on the pandemic billions of dollars. Huge money was spent on useless drugs. Such charges were brought in the world health organization ended ten years ago, the H1N1 influenza pandemic, known as swine flu.Uncertain opisaniyami swine flu was officially declared by the world health organization 11 June 2009. Over 41 years since the last pandemic (the so-called Hong Kong flu). Three months after the first outbreak in Mexico disease caused by a new strain of the H1N1 virus. A month after the text on the who website there has been a slight amendment.Read Dalies 2003 on the who website on the page “ready for pandemic” could be read the following text: “a flu Pandemic is a global epidemic caused by a new influenza virus against which the human population has no source of immunity that results in multiple simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and sick”.4 may 2009 the text has been corrected — after you specify the CNN correspondent on the possible inaccuracy of the definition. “It was a mistake, we apologize for the misunderstanding. It was written long ago, it turns out rather bleak and frightening picture,”— said the press Secretary who Natalie pod. From this point in order to declare a pandemic, it was enough that the outbreaks have been registered in at least two of the six regions into which who divides the world in their documents.Photo: Vincent Yu / Acorrective definition was extremely timely. Back on April 30 at a press briefing, the who announced that “the level of pandemic alert” is raised from 4 to 5. It was noted that “at the moment there is no reason to believe that we will move to phase 6”. Phase 6 is a pandemic.2 Jun 2009 the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia, head Rospotrebnadzora Gennady Onishchenko has declared to journalists that there was no reason to talk about the possibility of a pandemic of H1N1 influenza.And already on 11 June, the who declared the onset of phase 6.Read next 2010 spokesman of who Gregory Hartl in an interview with the medical website Medscape stated that the old definition of a pandemic “a huge number of deaths and sick” was the description, not the official definition. “This is not a definition, but we recognize that it could be so perceived. We are to blame for the confusion between definitions and descriptions,” said Mr. Hartl.Countless of certifate: Brennan Linsley / ARO that a flu pandemic sooner or later hap��GSI, and who, and doctors warned long before 2009.The forecasts were very pessimistic.In December 2004, on the who website published an article devoted to the assessment of a future influenza pandemic. It said: “Even in the most optimistic scenario, the next pandemic will die from 2 million to 7 million people, tens of millions will need medical care.If the strain of virus causing the next pandemic is a very virulent (degree of ability of the virus to cause disease or death of the organism.— “Kommersant”), the number of deaths could be much higher.” After the swine flu pandemic, the article disappeared from the site, but kept its backup.John Barry from the Center for bio-ecological studies of the universities of Tulane and Xavier wrote in 2005: “Almost every expert on influenza, I am convinced that the next pandemic is almost inevitable that it will kill millions of people, and could kill tens of millions, the same virus like the virus of 1918, the H1N1 could kill hundreds of millions and even more, and that the pandemic will cause economic and social upheaval on an enormous scale”.Photo: Denis Balibouse / ReutersВ 2006, a group of researchers headed by a Professor from Harvard by Christopher Murray published in the journal The Lancet his assessment: if the pandemic will evolve like the pandemic Spanish flu in 1918, it would kill about 62 million people.Michael Osterholm, Professor at the University of Minnesota, Advisor to the Minister of health and social services of the United States, in 2005, published in the journal The New England Journal of Medicine article “Preparing for the future pandemic” with its forecast from 180 million to 360 million deaths.The fact that the swine flu pandemic, 16 July 2009, the who announced changes in the reporting requirements for viral infection pandemic flu. Here is what was said in that message: “the influenza Pandemic 2009 spread internationally with unprecedented speed. During previous pandemics such widespread distribution of influenza viruses occurred more than six months, and in the case of the new H1N1 virus, this occurred less than six weeks.With the increase in the number of cases in many countries with sustained transmission in local communities countries becomes extremely difficult or even impossible to verify and confirm the cases by laboratory testing. Moreover, in such countries, counting the number of individual cases is no longer essential for monitoring either the level and nature of risk from the pandemic virus, and to ensure the most appropriate response.Strategy for the detection, laboratory confirmation and investigation of all cases, including cases of mild illness, is extremely resource intensive. In some��countries, this strategy consumes the vast majority of laboratory capabilities and capacities to respond, leaving few opportunities for monitoring and investigation of severe cases and other unusual events.”Usually in such bureaucratic documents is the main phrase, for the sake of which everything else is written. Here it is: “For all these reasons, who will no longer release the global table with the number of confirmed cases in all countries”.Photo: Yuriko Nakao / ReutersТак it is not surprising that precise data on the number of cases and deaths in the world as a result of the pandemic does not exist. According to the us Centers for control and prevention (CDC) in the United States during the pandemic contracted from 43.3 m to 89.3 million people were hospitalized from 195 to 402 086 719 people died from 8868 to 18 306 people. The number of deaths worldwide in the first year of the pandemic, the CDC estimates, from 700 to 151 575 400 people. According to the who, laboratory-confirmed deaths in 2009 was 18 449 (including in Russia — 14).Miracle preparative: Katie Collins / PA Images / Getty Madesa ten years before the pandemic swine flu, in 1999, the US market was withdrawn two new drug: oseltamivir Roche (brand name “Tamiflu”) and zanamivir Glaxo Wellcome, and subsequently joined GlaxoSmithKline (brand name “relenza”). After the US drugs were allowed in Europe. Both drugs belong to the neuraminidase inhibitors.In the same 1999, who published “the Plan of preparation for an influenza pandemic: the role of who and guidelines for national and regional planning”. It was the first in the history of the document, which spoke of the impending influenza pandemic. See “commend” States: “R. Snacken, Haaheim L. R., A. P. Kendal, John. John. Leithart and D. Lavanchy prepared this document for the world health organization (who) in collaboration with the European scientific working group on influenza (European Scientific Working Group on Influenza (ESWI))”.Photo: Clive Gee / PA Images / Getty Madena the ESWI website reported that the organization exists by grants from the European Union, carrying out once in three years of conferences on influenza, and grants from manufacturers of influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs. Here are the names of these companies: Hofmann-La Roche (part of Roche holding), AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Seqirus, Sanofi Pasteur, Mylan, Janssen. Part of ESWI at that time also consisted of Professor Karl Nicholson of Leicester University (UK) and Professor AB Osterhaus from Erasmus University (the Netherlands). Both were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of the antiviral drug oseltamivir (known in Russia under the brand name “Tamiflu”) of the company Roche. The results of the study were published in the Lancet in 2000. This is one of the most serious investigated��minutes, proving the effectiveness of the drug.In 2002, at the headquarters of who in Geneva hosted a meeting of experts on influenza. It was attended by representatives of pharmaceutical companies Roche and Aventis Pasteur and three scientists, whose names are found in marketing materials for oseltamivir: Karl Nicholson, AB Osterhaus and Fred Hayden of the University of Virginia.Photo: Robin Utrecht / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Madenataran meetings formed an important part of the who published in 2004 the “guidelines for the use of vaccines and antiviral drugs during a pandemic flu”.Application recommendations for use of antiviral drugs for this was written by Fred Hayden, receiving at that time the money for lectures and consultations from companies Roche and GlaxoSmithKline. According to one of the recommendations, countries ought to have a large stock of antivirals in case of pandemic. The author of the application of vaccination in a pandemic was Professor Arnold Monto from the University of Michigan. He declared receipt of fees, payments for advice and assistance in the conduct of research from Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, and ViroPharma. Carl Nicholson, who wrote the app “Pandemic flu”, went to seminars by Roche and GlaxoSmithKline, receiving consulting fees from Wyeth, Chiron, and Berna Biotech.During the outbreak of avian influenza in 2005, the governments of many countries on the recommendation of who began to buy large amounts of Tamiflu and relenza, creating reserves in the event of an influenza pandemic. With the beginning of the swine flu epidemic in 2009, these reserves grew, in large quantities were also purchased vaccine. In 2009, 85 countries have purchased 220 million packages of Tamiflu for a total of about $18 billion In the United States for the purchase of this drug it spent about $1.5 billion in the UK bought Tamiflu and relenza 560 million Russia panicked less in comparison with other countries degree. The evaluation of the investment Bank JP Morgan, the sale of vaccines against H1N1 influenza in 2009 was to bring producers a profit of $7-10 billion. After the end of the pandemic, a huge number of vaccines and drugs have been destroyed in connection with the expiration. For example, the UK originally signed contracts on the purchase of 120 million doses of vaccines against swine flu. Due to the low number of cases purchased were only 44 million doses. Of them by April 2010, it was used only 6 million doses, and another 3.8 million was transferred to the structures of the who in Africa.First obvineniyu: Vincent Kessler / ReutersВ December 2009 pandemic was on the decline. And louder the voices of those who doubted the fact, and whether the pandemic.The Chairman of the health Committee of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Wolfgang Wodarg 18 December 2009 filed a proposal for the development of the draft recommendation, entitled “False pandemics, a threat ZD��review”, signed by the 13 delegates of the PACE: “in order to promote their drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies responsible for standards in the field of health, who gave the signal of alarm governments worldwide.”The paper argues that the campaign “bird flu” in 2005-2006 and the “swine flu” struck a serious blow to the credibility of the international organizations active in the health sector that the funds allocated by States to public health, was inefficiently spent on the purchase of insufficiently tested vaccines that jeopardize the lives and health of millions of people. Proposers are urged to investigate the history of “swine flu” at the European level and at the level of individual States. The report on this subject on 4 June 2010 read before the Committee by one of the authors of the initiative — Paul Flynn. According to him, “it was pandemic, which actually was not a pandemic”, “there is overwhelming evidence that the seriousness of the pandemic was exaggerated by the who,” and the vaccination program was “the use of placebos on a vast scale”.24 June of this year the PACE by an overwhelming majority, adopted resolution No. 1749 and recommendation No. 1929. They discussed the need for more open who.Critical stacatto: twitter.com/deb_cohen”Leading scientists who advised the who on planning actions during pandemic influenza, did paid work for pharmaceutical companies, which was beneficial to prepare recommendations. About this conflict of interest who has never publicly stated”.With this accusation begins with the article “who and “conspiracy theory” in connection with pandemic influenza”, published 3 June 2010, The BMJ, the weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal in medicine with more than a century history.The article was the result of a joint investigation by the journal’s editor Deborah Cohen and journalist Philip Carter London Bureau of investigative journalism (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism).Title of the article is a response to the words of who Director-General Margaret Chan. On 24 March 2010 a lecture at the headquarters of the CDC in Atlanta, miss Chan said: “who foresaw careful attention to her decisions, but we could not foresee that some European politicians accuse us that we have declared a fake pandemic on the advice of experts with ties to the pharmaceutical industry and have received personal benefits from the increased profits of this industry… this has undermined the credibility of the need of vaccination in some countries including in several developing countries… We have already had early to face the conspiracy theories…”Working on the article in the BMJ, the authors sent requests to the who about a possible conflict of interest, but responses are not received.Photo: Keystone / Laurent Gillieron / Artesania on the situation with the “swine flu” Margaret Chan took on the basis of the recommendations of the emergency Committee, consisting of 16 people. The names of these people who didn’t. Press Secretary Gregory Hartl explained it this way: “Our main principle is to protect the Committee from outside influence”. Was known only to the head of the Committee is Professor John McKenzie. Members of the secret Committee gave recommendations on the Declaration of phases of a pandemic, dates of its beginning and end, measures to combat it. The names of other consultants who, for example, members of the Strategic Advisory group of experts on immunization, has never been a secret. Apparently, it was believed that nobody can influence.10 August 2010 the who declared the end of pandemic swine flu. On the same day was published the list of members of the secret Committee, and also data on incomes of those who collaborated with the pharmaceutical companies.Photo: Scott Soderberg / University of Msisi Arnold Montaut has advised on pandemic and seasonal influenza, the company GlaxoSmeetKline, Novartis, Roche, Baxter and Sanofi. From each of them he received for consultations less than $10 million he Also conducted a study of comparative effectiveness of influenza vaccines for a grant from Sanofi Pasteur. Dr. John wood doing work with influenza vaccines under contracts with Sanofi Pasteur, CSL, IFPMA, Novartis and Powdermed. In the laboratory of Professor Maria Zambon was funded by vaccine manufacturers, including Sanofi, Novartis, CSL, Baxter and GlaxoSmithKline. Professor Neil Ferguson has advised companies Roche and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (until 2007), received for all consultations less than $7 thousand Photo: Reuters1 Oct the who were supplemented with the mention of the fact that Professor Neil Ferguson has also collaborated with Novartis. Those who are closely monitoring the situation with the pandemic coronavirus, the name Neil Ferguson may be familiar with. Until recently he was a member of the Strategic Advisory group of experts advising the UK government.Mr. Ferguson was a supporter of stringent quarantine and resigned may 5, 2020, after it became known that he grossly violated the conditions of quarantine: to him came to visit the mistress.Endless storiesamanda on the critics who have found answers. Shortly after the publication of the investigation in the BMJ, who Director-General Margaret Chan said: “Never, not for one second commercial influences taken me solutions.” Officially was refuted and other charges. The old definition of a pandemic was never official. Who did not exaggerate the threat of a pandemic. “Allegations that who told��Vila pandemic in order to increase the profits of the pharmaceutical industry, originated in the fact that who have used the services of expert consultants, and in connection with the method of obtaining from these experts ‘ declarations about the lack of interest. In the course of recent investigations have not identified any specific cases of violations”.International non-profit organization Cochrane performing an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of drugs and medical techniques from the standpoint of evidence-based medicine, has repeatedly studied the issue of the effectiveness of the use of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (relenza) for the treatment and prevention of seasonal and pandemic influenza. Here are some findings from the latest Cochrane review, published in 2014: “We found that both drugs reduced the duration of symptoms of influenza-like illness (unconfirmed influenza or “the flu”) less than one day.Oseltamivir, based on data from all people included in clinical trials of treatment with oseltamivir did not affect the number of hospitalizations… Clinical trials for the prevention (of disease) showed that oseltamivir and zanamivir reduced the risk of symptomatic influenza in individuals and in the family. There was no evidence of effect on asymptomatic influenza or on influenza, for flu-like illness, but the problems in testing prevent any particular conclusion. The application of oseltamivir for prevention of influenza were noted such side effects as nausea, vomiting, headaches, renal and psychiatric events. The lack of quality evidence demonstrating the impact on complications (flu.— “B”), consistent with the cautious conclusions on both drugs, made by the Administration on control of medicines and food USA (FDA). The FDA has allowed claims only on the effectiveness of both drugs in the prevention and treatment of flu symptoms, but no other effects (including the interruption of the spread of the virus from person to person or the prevention of pneumonia). The FDA described the efficacy of both drugs in General as “modest””. It’s funny, but Thomas Jefferson from the Center for evidence-based medicine at Oxford University whose name stands first in the list of authors of the Cochrane review 2014 previously advised Roche that is on Tamiflu.Photo: University of OxfordВ September 2019 Thomas Jefferson on behalf of the U.S. government and 29 States have filed a lawsuit against Roche, alleging the holding in the false statements about the effectiveness of Tamiflu in the event of a pandemic, which the Federal government and state governments spent about $1.5 billion for the purchase of an ineffective drug. The plaintiff demands from the company in that amount. In the case of recognition by court of fault of the company faces a fine in the amount of $4.5 billion (triple ��Ummah of the damage) plus payment of legal costs. By law, the whistleblower can receive up to 30% of the amount recovered. Representatives of Roche asked the court to reject the claim, as Mr. Jefferson “ignores the reality”, the U.S. government conducted its own studies of the effectiveness of Tamiflu and continues to keep the drug in the strategic supply of drugs. Judging by the fact that earlier a similar claim Thomas Jefferson for five years refused to support the U.S. Department of justice, the prospects of the current small claim. Moreover, leading his law firm closed for quarantine, and in the background a new pandemic of old became less relevant.Alexey Alexeev
