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Vaccine Is On Its Way, But Public Still Wary

Swine Flu Campaign Faces Key Barriers: Unease, Ambivalence

--Washington Post, yesterday

Worry Grows Among Doctors Over Clamor for Flu Vaccine

--New York Times, today

COMMENTS (2)

10/05/2009 - 5:28pm EDT |

Good and bad are just points of view here.

You'd know that if you weren't so convinced the good news is that I'm wrong.

Given that the swine flu vaccine is in large part a government program, if there are problems that is good news for those who want the government to look incompetent when healthcare legislation to increase the role government plays in the healthcare of American citizens is at stake.

Right?

Cue the throngs cheering in the vast right wing conspiracy.

Of course a lot of the confusion apparently is derived from folks who are being set up by the conservatives to expect this from the government.

Uh, don't expect them to own up to this though.

Everything is politics. And that's good or ... view full comment

10/05/2009 - 8:17pm EDT |

I wonder how many doctors it takes to pass the "among doctors" threshold? I'm going to guess a baker's dozen at most.

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