Ideal Cover Story for Flu Vaccine Being Floated

Discussion in 'Consumer Advocacy' started by Pressed_Rat, Oct 14, 2004.

  1. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    JON RAPPOPORT

    OCTOBER 14, 2004.

    You've seen the press reports. Flu vaccine stolen from a doctor's office, now on the black market. Some flu jabbers charging $80 to $100 dollars a shot. Outrageous. Criminal. The CDC is running down these people. Will prosecute.

    Well, I'm sure there is some truth to these tales. That's what makes a great cover story.

    What's behind it, though? The fact that somewhere between 6 and 27 million contaminated Chiron flu shots were shipped into the US BEFORE the ban was put on Chiron.

    Notice how THIS story is fading from press accounts.

    A few days ago, Reuters reported that the CDC was trying to track down pharmacies and doctors' offices and clinics where the Chiron shots may have been shipped from US distributors' warehouses.

    But now, that revelation is taking a back seat to the more gut-level tales of people overcharging for a jab.

    I'm sure we'll be getting coverage of "unscrupulous Doctor X" who offered patients a flu shot for $90 and this mother couldn't afford it so her son has to go without his vaccine and the whole family is worried he'll get sick and die because he gets very sick every fall from the flu and the kid has a guitar he loves and he wants to sell it to have the money for the shot but his mother says he loves that guitar and he's in a little rock band in kindergarten at school and it's the only thing that gives him a sense of self-worth and the kid's father left the family in the lurch four years ago because he was drinking and he said goodbye to his son one day after he dropped him off at school and the son hasn't seen him since and now a local businessman has ponied up the $90 and the kid can get the shot and the businessman is putting together a group that's donating money for free shots but there isn't enough vaccine available so the group is flying in vaccine from Canada and they hope it arrives in time but there is always a chance that in transit the vaccine won't be frozen at the right temperature and so it will be spoiled and contaminated and no one is sure what to do and the county medical association hopes it can examine the vaccine and test it but it doesn't have sophisticated equipment so they're appealing to health officials at the state capitol where they do have the equipment but there's so much red tape and meanwhile there are pickets outside Doctor X's office and he said he never said $90 and it was all a misunderstanding but now he doesn't have any vaccine left and he has retained a lawyer and he's suing Chiron because it's all their fault and Chiron states it acted in good faith...
     
  2. cerridwen

    cerridwen in stitches

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    yea... i'm weary about getting my flu shot. everyone i know that got one got sick.
     
  3. gary.newelluk

    gary.newelluk Member

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    The thing about a vaccine is that it is a small dose of the disease itself which enables your antibodies to react and build up a defence against it which is why when people get a flu shot they generally get ill with it.

    However when the real bug hits you are safe against it. I certainly wouldn't recommend getting it done on the black market though. They might accidentally inject you with ebola or something
     
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