PING...Bush campaign is falling asleep on this.
Personally, I'm not a flu shot nut, never had one, and don't intend on getting one (atleast until I'm in my 60s).
But there are alot of people angry out there about flu shots and Bush/Rove have let Kerry set the table on the issue so far.
It's time to start hammering back hard on how scumbags like Edwards is the REAL reason there is a vaccine shortage.
PING...I wish we could see some real progress on tort reform. So far Bush has not delivered.
Locally here in PA, where there media was at a long flu shot line, an interview with a county official revealed that last year they threw out thousands of flu vaccines for lack of interest!
Why all of the sudden is there interest? I guess some of it is mass hysteria, but don't discount the DNC/MoveOn.org angle.
But if the Bush campaign won't bother to explain this, it doesn't matter.
Just saying "Its the lawyers' fault" without explaining why isn't enough. The verdict is in on Karl Rove, this race should never have been this close with such an inferior Dem candidate.
The shortage is the direct result of Hillary Clinton's 1994 vaccine law (Thank God the only part of HillaryCare ever to become law) and the corruption of the liability lotto industry of Edwards.
Kerry has 100% supported both destructive forces. His record is pathetic.
Obstertricains and neurosurgeons are following closely as endangered species in some states without tort reform.
Repeat, as needed...
Bttt for later
Flu Shot Info (just in by e-mail)
How the vaccine works:
Influenza vaccine is produced by growing the virus in eggs. The virus is killed and processed to create the vaccine, which is given by injection under the skin. The body then produces antibodies to the virus over the next two to four weeks. If the immunized person then comes into contact with the influenza virus, the antibodies attack and kill the virus before it has a chance to cause infection. The vaccine contains the 3 most likely strains to be active during the "Flu season."
Why the shortage:
Almost half of the nation's flu vaccine will not be delivered this year. Chiron, a major manufacturer of flu vaccine, will not be distributing any influenza vaccine this flu season. Chiron was to make 46-48 million doses vaccine for the United States. Chiron is a British company. Recently British health officials stopped Chiron from distributing and making the vaccine when inspectors found unsanitary conditions in the labs. Some lots of the vaccine were recalled and destroyed.
Why is our vaccine made in the UK and not the US?
The major pharmaceutical companies in the US provided almost 90% of the nations flu vaccine at one time. They did this despite a very low profit margin for the product. Basically, they were doing us a favor. In the late 80's a man from North Carolina who had received the vaccine, got the flu. The strain he caught was one of the strains in that years vaccine made by a US company.
What did he do?
He sued and he won. He was awarded almost $5 million! After that case was appealed and lost, most US pharmaceuticals stopped making the vaccine. The liability out weighed the profit margin. Since UK and Canadian laws prohibit such frivolous law suits, UK and Canadian companies began selling the vaccine in the US. By the way...the lawyer that represented the NC man in the flu shot law suit was a young ambulance chaser by the name of...... John Edwards.