Posted on 11/05/2009 7:27:07 AM PST by FromLori
We've been trying to figure out what, if any, preparations Wall Street has been taking to guard against H1N1. For the most part, the banks have been coy about their activities.
But as noted on The Today Show this morning, several banks have been among the early recipients of H1N1 vaccine, allowing them to get ahead of hospitals in some instances.
The story was originally broken by BusinessWeek this week.
Goldman Sachs (GS) has received 200 doses in total -- the exact same as Lennox Hill hospital.
Health officials say corporate partners are always part of the distribution of any vaccine.
There's no allegation that they broke any rules, and we're still not quite sure what the whole story is -- mainly it looks like another PR snafu for Wall Street. Some are suggesting that, perhaps, the banks should have donated their allocated vaccines.
In defense of the banks, we all benefit when others are vaccinated. It's a positive, not zero-sum game.
Update: To be clear, Goldman confirms that all these decisions are made by the CDC, and that the vaccine only goes to specified high-risk individuals. In addition, as noted by the above BusinessWeek report, 29 companies including Time Warner another others have also been slected as vaccine distribution.
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Hmmm...who's in charge of the CDC?
He probably opposed obama care and didn’t give huge contributions to obama like government sachs did.
Didn’t I see the cast of the Today Show getting the H1N1 vaccine a month or so ago? Or was that a regular flu shot? If so- why did they get priority?
If there is something to be concerned about -- it's that they stopped production of the regular seasonal flu vaccine, so that is unavailable.
That stopped to produce the H1N1 vaccine, which is generally unavailable, because of the gov't insistence on single-dose packaging. This has the potential to become Obama's Katrina -- or something a lot worse.
From what I saw posted here Hillary Clinton was responsible for the shortage of vaccine
Really interesting. I wonder why the CFR is involved in all of this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSAjT2soxKY&feature=player_embedded
He got hammered, from multiple reporters, on the vaccine going to GS.
Gibbs' spin was to pawn it off on the CDC, and then the groups receiving it, suggesting they should be socially conscious enough (not his words, but mine) to make sure the most vulnerable get it first.
Bottom line: he made absolutely no sense.
OT, but he was also asked about Valerie Jarrett's "truth to power" statement with regard to Fox News. (Is Fox the power?) Gibbs said he didn't hear it, or something. ROFLMAO!
Talk about an opportunity to kill Obamacare.
If ever there was a villian both sides of the aisle could agree on, it’s Goldman Sachs.
That GS got the vaccine before the people did is EXACTLY what is going to happen when the government takes over healthcare. Some will be put to the front of the line, and 99/100 they’ll have more influence than you do, even if your kid is dying.
If we don’t use this, we are truly stupid.
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