Daan de Wit: What to choose... The vaccine or a natural remedy for the Swine Flu? The facts and the fiction.

"In 2005 Barack Obama wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times on how to prevent a pandemic, the world at that time being under the threat of the Bird Flu. He also gave an interview on this subject. Even then he was an advocate of the government taking forceful action: '[...] the government's going to have to incentivize the large capital investments that will be required in order to manufacture sufficient quantities once a vaccine is identified [for a given strain of avian flu]'. For the consequences are great, said Obama: '[...] in addition to obviously the loss of life, the breakdown of our health systems, the economic consequences would be huge'. In the meantime the now President Obama has declared the pandemic - defined as such by the WHO - a national emergency. Due to this declaration, various laws and bureaucratic rules can be bypassed. Obama has asked Congress for and has received three times the amount of money than was originally planned to combat the virus. But what are the facts?"