My son is diabetic and got shot yesterday. He went to pediatrician for something else and she said he should get a shot right away, so they gave it to him. Interesting facts in NYT editorial today put this bogus issue into context. We were planning on 100 million doses, and will have 60 million because of Chiron. That is 1 dose per 6 people approx. The interesting thing is, last year the world outside the USA produced only 200 million doses, yet there was no pandemic, no stories of mass deaths, or anything close to that................here is relevant part of NTY...........Underlying this crisis is the increasing fragility of the vaccine manufacturing base. This may be mostly an American problem rather than a global problem. There are six major manufacturers in the world who produced some 200 million doses for other nations this year, but only two of them are licensed to produce the 100 million doses of injectable vaccine for this country. The British coped with the loss of Chiron's vaccine far better than the United States, mostly because they order far less vaccine and have a diversity of suppliers that can fill in if one company falters..............
This whole issue is just a desperate political ploy by the Dems to embarass Bush
I read something that I thought was very interesting about Flu shots just a few months ago. I am trying to find it. I thought I read it on the Mayo Clinic site.
The point of it was (written by a researcher/ Cancer Doc) that 1) the Flu shot was a weakened strain of the previous year's outbreak. 2) He believed that because of the nature of viruses, that we were actually making the problem worse by infecting millions of healthy people, albeit with a weakened strain, viruses can mutate into a far worse strain, then be passed onto others.
He recommended not taking the shot.