CNN

A person I knew died of this flu 2 days ago. She had a previous condition that made her weaker, but vaccine would have prevented her death.
She probably DID wash her hands, but that didn't do the trick.
PLEASE–NO VACCINE FOR GITMO DETAINEES BEFORE WE ALL GET OURS!

Here you go again cnn your news network cater right to how fox news act. The government has no control on how the h1n1 flu spread it is not their fault. I'm really starting to hate cnn news.

And you want this same government to be in charge of ALL your health care needs???????

Working for a biotech company supplying hardware for the vaccine production, I found it interesting to learn from a customer that they had an innovative capability to produce H1N1 vaccine and our fed government has been sitting on this application since they submitted it last February. They feel there was no need for a vaccine shortage. Makes you wonder if the boy in the WH wanted to play hero to a pandemic scare.

It's just a another strain of the FLU people and thousands of people die from it every year. The only difference this time is that the Dem's are trying to make political hay with this one.

What ever became of the bird flu that was suppose to nearly wipe out humanity just a couple years ago and others before that? We're still here as will most of us would be this time next year and then we would have yet another humanity threatening strain of a flu bug to deal with in 2010.

And yet they have confidence in the governments ability to control healthcare?

Go ahead CNN, don't post this because it disagrees with your viewpoint.

These same voters are the ones who disregarded the early warning from the CDC about his possible pandemic. No one believed there could be a pandemic here in the country, after all it started in a third world country. Now that Americans, especially children and pregnant women are dying, the reality of the situation has finally seeped into their brains.

Now they want to blame the government. We still have parents who are refusing to have their kids innoculated. Where is the outcry for derelict parents who think the vaccine is not safe.

Get a grip America. It is your fault, not the government who has failed us, it is you with your backward thinking.

The CDC, we are told, still is mired w/ old, antiquated methods of manufacturing vaccines. This ante-deluvian attitude needs apathy from the scientists, who, then, should seek better and bolder measures of making newer vaccines without vascillations.

I just threw out my last roll of duck tape when the bush idiots told us
that we were going to get attacked with a dirty bomb if I just had the
stock in duck tape and plastic rolls I would have been rich person
and not care about H1N1 because I would have had the vaccine
remember we just LOVE to live in fear

You mean because they promised 40 million doses and only delivered 12 million, because they were giving it to everybody before the high risk groups and because they've totally mismanaged this, the people have no confidence? What a surprise? And yet, everyone seems to think it's okay to let the government control the entire health care system. That's what I don't understand.

The government is in charge of distribution of the vaccine. Why did the fat cat bankers on Wall Street get the vaccine before children and high risk medical workers?

Is this a look into the future of medical care in the United States if obamacare passes?

"A day late and a dollar short" and we're ready to turn our nation's healthcare over to this same government bureaurcracy. What kind of idiots are we?

WHO CARES?

H1N1 is no different than other flu epidemics. They happen every year at the same time.

People will get it, the vast majority will survive, the very few will not. It's called Darwinism, and it exists in more places than flu health. What's next, a "crisis" to address bad driving? Alcoholism? Heart disease?

Let me modify my input --

Americans want it all and they want it all NOW !! But they don't want to be taxed to pay for it.

The constant rumblings of lower taxes will ruin this country. The wealthy still have their tax cuts in place, they"re supposed to create jobs, but IT IS NOT TRICKLING DOWN.

And these same people think the government can take over their health care??? Wake up people this is your first sign of what a disaster our health care will become if the government gets involved at all. Reform the insurance companies and keep the government out of trying to become OUR only health care provider. Once they screw it up, there is NO turning back.

cut me a break i just took a survey and found 99 percent of americans
cannot find the time to take a survey so I guess you are full of crap

government health care??????

Can't blame Americans for losing faith. Like so many other things, the flu has been mishandled, politicized and the vaccine was lied about. All of this is the norm for the Obama administration. Obama, one and done.

"Americans are starting to lose confidence in the government's ability to prevent a nationwide epidemic of the H1N1 flu,"

I've lost confidence in anything the government does.

Uh, well yeah.......the government didn't move fast enough to get enough vaccine and kids are getting the flu faster than it can be shipped out. By the time the vaccine is available to all that should have it, everyone that should have gotten it will already have had the flu. Go figure.....and they say they can run our health care system? Don't think so!

Hmmmm – seems everyone wants everything NOW !!

GIven the tooting of their own horn in August about their readiness to roll out the vaccine in early October...I find the poll results very optimistic. I believe the government has dropped the ball on the H1N1 vaccine. They stated that 38 million doses have been allocated as of this week...but as of last week...only 16+ million doses have been shipped. This is where the media has fallen down in providing the public with accurate information...taking what the Secretary of HHS says by "allocating" versus what really has been shipped...delivered...and disbursed...let alone "shots provided". The ambiguity between different geographical areas of the country is also a non-starter. Take for example the state of Ohio...each county decides which priority groups get the shot first...and if they will innoculate school children. There is no one, specific "policy"...just ambiguous guidelines. On summary...I am suprised with the poll results given the ridiculous, non-sensical roll out of this important vaccine!

And yet people are going giddy over the House passing this healthcare scam. You think that's gonna be any different? All you people who are going on and on and on about how bad healthcare is in America. You want to see it get really and truly bad? Just let this disgrace of a bill become law, then you'll see an absolutely terrible healthcare system, compliments of idiot Pelosi and the false prophet with the so-so golf game.

These polls are ridiculous. Who comes up with this crap?

That must be Obama's fault...

"I don't want the government involved in my healthcare!" "I don't want the government involved in my healthcare!" "I don't want the government involved in my healthcare!"

"Americans are starting to lose confidence in the government's ability to prevent a nationwide epidemic of the H1N1 flu, according to a new national poll."

Now, I'm confused...do you want the government involved or not?

Bush got blamed for Katrina. Doesn't look like Obama is doing any better on this one, is he?

Since when is it the government's job to keep people from getting the flu? The government cannot save you from everything. You're going to have to fight a few battles on your own.

Not to worry, the Wall Street Executives have had their H1N1 shots long before the at risk group. So has all the members of congress it is very important that the noble ruling class are safe, let the serfs eat cake as they say.

Maybe Americans are losing confidence because the media is VASTLY overblowing the odds of this epidemic happening. Turn on the local news in a two-million-person metropolitan area and you hear about how six people contracted swine flu yesterday. Turn on ESPN and you hear about how ONE NHL PLAYER got the swine flu.

Remember the avian flu that everyone was so terrified about at this time last year?

Now do you we want a government run program or not. we scream against government health care but want government intervention in the manufacturing of the H1N1 Vaccine, which is being manufactured by private companies. We can’t have it both ways, cluster Fox News!!!

The story should also mention that public 'opinion' is absolutely meaningless in this context. The public doesn't have any knowledge of the science involved: how the disease might spread and how the vaccine is produced. The public doesn't have any knowledge of the manufacturing process and the distribution problems either.

All we can do is trust the people we elected to manage these things. I remember when swine flu was first mentioned, many of 'the public' were arguing that the government was hysterical – as is typical of Liberals – and that there would be no swine flu epidemic.

We may as well conduct a survey on how long the Hubble Telescope will work before it fails or on how long it will be before there is another volcanic eruption in the US.

Perhaps that is because in the history of mankind, we have never been able to contain a flu virus. The media is having a field day with this entire debacle, and now they can be happy – their fear mongering is starting to frighten people.

And yet the same sheep think the government can run the nation's healthcare system. Makes sense.

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme...

Perfect example of why the government should NOT run our healthcare system.

The democrats and the Obama administration isn't trying to "fix" the healthcare system with their overhaul, they are trying to "take over" and make American's more dependant on the government, making it bigger and bigger and more socialistic.

Wake up America!

Guess that now people can see that when Obama is involved in something it just goes to pot. Obama is a waste, open your eyes people.

Seems to me we need someone in charge be that person Democrat, Independent or Republican that knows how to get things done. Apparently someone isn't doing their job.

The government has nothing to do with stopping the epidemic. All they can do is recommend how people should behave if they have the symptoms and supply the vaccine for usage.

It is so funny people want the government to step in when it impacts their family life in a disasterous way and don't want the government involved when it is not within their best interest. I have confidence the government will try to do as much as they can to protect the public (regardless who's in office).

How about that we lost confidence in this Congress and W.H. all run by democrats!

What? Ok, CNN...stop trying to create controversy here. Pres. Obama's administration has done an outstanding job staying ahead of H1N1. The critics said it wasn't possible to have a vaccine at all, nevermind by the fall. Now they criticize them for their not being enough. Which is not the fault of the administration, but of the private sector manufacturers that Republicans are so proud of. If the Republicans had been on the watch we would have just been out of luck. "Wash your hands and hope you don't get sick".

Just add this to the list of failures for the Obama Administration. It's sad, because I can't even think of 1 success out of this past year. Spending money we don't have, through the roof. Bringing the troops home, still voting present with no plan. Closing Gitmo, still open.

Actually, the only success he has had, is that he successfully lied his way into power. Taxes are going up, unemployment over 10% and still no answer for the troops in Afghanastan. He may be President, but he is NOT a leader.

Impeach them all and start over with no corruption. Or continue to follow blindly like sheep and wonder what happened to America.

Unfortunately, with all the mis-information spewed by the right-wing talking heads ... there are large numbers of people who will refuse the vaccination when it becomes available .... and then blame the administration when they get sick ..