Signs Of The Time, Part 56
What Wall Street wants, Wall Street gets.
Even at the expense of your own health, according to some reports.
From Reuters’ Bill Berkot this evening:
New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves on Thursday in the wake of media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through their employers.
Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminded state and city health officers of the need to make sure the most vulnerable people get shots first.
“I am concerned that the distribution of the vaccine is resulting in favored treatment for the privileged,” New Jersey Democratic Representative Frank Pallone said…
Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, a Democrat, released a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying he was “stunned” at the reports.
“I implore you to use whatever authorities you have to ensure that H1N1 vaccines already distributed but not yet used are promptly redirected to hospitals, schools, community health clinics, school-based health clinics, and pediatricians so that they can be made immediately available to at-risk members of the public as identified by the Department,” Dodd wrote.
Is it me, or does it seem like Chris Dodd is forever getting “stunned”?
Source:
“UPDATE 2-Flu shots for Wall Street stirs ire in New York”
Bill Berkrot
Reuters, November 5, 2009
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