[lit-ideas] Re: flu vaccine

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:31:24 +0100

The CDC has now set up an ethics committee to

>help navigate the life-and-death questions of who should get flu
>vaccines in the current crisis and how the agency should cope with
>any future epidemics.



>The disease control agency has already decided that broadly speaking,
>only the very young, the very old and the chronically ill should
>receive this season's limited supply of flu vaccine. But state and
>local health officials have complained that shortages of the vaccine
>are so dire that they do not have enough to inoculate everyone in
>those categories. While they have been making decisions themselves
>about who should receive priority, these officials say they want
>better guidance from the agency as to who is the highest of the
>high-risk.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/health/28vaccine.html






-- 
 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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