Oprah Show today

[DinahS]

Did anyone watch the Oprah show today. She had an infectious disease dr. on there talking about the avian flu and how it was coming here. He said that it could cause a global economic fall. That meaning drugs would be hard to get as well as food and everything else. It was very scary. I wish we could get more than a month's worth of Warfarin stocked up. He said to have enough canned goods, water, and meds to last you about 6-8 weeks.

Surely Warfarin won't run out since there are so many people on it. Course if the pharmacies are closed, what good is that?

Just wondering if anyone else watched and their thoughts. I am still recovering and am now a TV junkie. Today show, The View, Soaps, Dr. Phil then Oprah everyday...hahaha!

Oh...I can't wait to go back to work.

 

[hensylee]

That was Dr Sonja Gupta from CNN. You can find him on CNN every day, reporting on something. I think the TV doctors overblow a lot of this medical stuff. The governments are constantly working on trying to find solutions for bird flu and hopefully before long they will have it covered.

When aids came out, we were all going to die from it. Certainly many have, but it has not grown as they predicted. This could be the same.

You can subscribe to CNN and get reports every day from various reporters such as Dr Gupta. Cute, isn't he. He's been all over the world during his tenure at CNN, including Iraq where he assisted in surgery (I believe he's a brain surgeon).

 

[Karlynn]

The other doctor was a man by the name of Osterholme (?). He was also talking about how getting a vaccine in time would be impossible because there is only 1 company, off-shore, that manufacters flu vaccines. And why is that? Thank you law suits. When the world has to rely on 1 manufacterer for something, that's not a good thing.

 

[LUVMyBirman]

I tried to watch the show last night. Had to turn it off. Yes, it's a remote possibility. But why scare people into hoarding drugs, food and supplies unnecessarily? If the media keeps pressing we will have another Y2K saga. Don't get me wrong. I love Oprah. But I feel she made a poor decision in regard to the broadcast of that particular show. Let's talk about it once there are bunches of "confirmed mutations".

 

[PamO]

Dr. Ira on either Fox or MSNBC addressed this issue not too long ago. He said that the chances of a global shortage of medication was so remote, he wouldn't even give odds. He took a common sense approach to it. Given the fact that pharmaceutical companies are so large, wealthy and diversified, they wouldn't take all of their production offline to take care of one medication for avian flu. It doesn't make good business sense and, make no mistake, the pharma companies are in business to make money. And, considering that someone just survived what they've been calling a fatal flu by taking Tamiflu - I would agree.

As for hoarding food and water - I'll take the approach I took in 2000 (remember? Everyone was going to be without because of Y2K) - not going to do it.

That being said, we're extremely lucky to live in developed countries where goods and services are diversified and widely available. In a country that's not developed, there may be issues.