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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html