Among my friends and family members are a 24-year-old man with diabetes and a seizure disorder who has been hospitalized twice now with the swine flu and its resulting pneumonia; a 44-year-old mom of two young children who is in her fourth week of fighting swine-flu-related pneumonia, a 31-year-old mom of a 2-year-old who is also 6 months pregnant and four nieces and nephews under age 13, one with asthma. As I understand it, the Wall Street firms got their H1N1 flu vaccines before any of these people did.
I find this absolutely outrageous, especially when the CDC itself has prioritized and publicized so well how the vulnerable populations MUST be vaccinated first.
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Pat,
I'm so glad you commented on this.
Among my friends and family members are a 24-year-old man with diabetes and a seizure disorder who has been hospitalized twice now with the swine flu and its resulting pneumonia; a 44-year-old mom of two young children who is in her fourth week of fighting swine-flu-related pneumonia, a 31-year-old mom of a 2-year-old who is also 6 months pregnant and four nieces and nephews under age 13, one with asthma. As I understand it, the Wall Street firms got their H1N1 flu vaccines before any of these people did.
I find this absolutely outrageous, especially when the CDC itself has prioritized and publicized so well how the vulnerable populations MUST be vaccinated first.
November 9, 2009 - 8:18amThis Comment
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