Vaccine

I took my daughter in to get her flu shot today. Apparently she was one of the last people in New York that can get one right now because of what the nurse described as a "kind of panic." Then I see this article in today's Times titled How Not to Pick a Flu Vaccine and while I'm reading it, the doctor's office calls to cancel my appointment for my flu shot tomorrow.

I'm not so aghast as I am disgusted. If there was ever a real need for biological deterrants, wouldn't influenza, which kills 36,000 people per year even today, be a very clear focus of government and the pharmaceutical industry? What does the Department of Homeland Security and the Centers for Disease Control do for a living?

Posted by Andrew at December 9, 2003 2:16 PM