Danged if ya do, danged if ya don’t ( I’ll never be a flu shot salesman! )
Posted by Moonage on 21 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Fed Policy, The Media
In 2003, the US destroyed many leftover flu shots. In 2004 thru 2006, near hysteria was experienced due to a shortage of flu shots. This year, the Feds may destroy 10,000,000 excess flu shots at the end of the flu season. The logic to doing that is fairly simple, they want to be sure they have the most up-to-date vaccine there is. Otherwise, they’d be wasting money on 110,000,000 vaccines instead of just 10,000,000. However, SOME people are complaining that the risk might be worth it. Vaccines don’t degrade terrribly quick and could offer SOME relief in years of shortages. Now, that’s all fine and good, but don’t ask ME to be the one to get an out-of-date flu shot when someone else gets the most up-to-date. So, I don’t really like how the Associated Press stating their headline to this topic as:
Government Wastes Millions of Flu Shots
The very last thing I think people want is the government to scrimp on getting vaccines and coming up short.
Bad Associated Press, bad.
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