I was quite appalled when I read this article in the Spectator today:http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/673249 So after we heard a week ago about queue line jumping from professional athletes we now find out that the they've miscalculated the amount of vaccination they needed, yet we don't have enough vaccine to give to school-aged children?
Sounds rather contradictory to me. If the country is so well prepared for this, how can we run out of vaccination and now have too much and have to throw it out since the vaccination is time sensitive?
It sounds like whoever was in charge of this plan didn't think it through thoroughly. They've said they had limited vaccine available and they wanted to be sure pregnant women, children under 5 and those with medical conditions received priority yet they threw out 1% of their vaccine?
After the vaccine is put in the syringe, they must use it within 24-hours or it's unusable since they haven't had enough time to study how it would react after that window.
I'm sure, that those awaiting the vaccine are very frustrated since many parents are trying to get their children vaccinated to prevent the spread of H1N1 yet every where they turn they're limited for what they can do.
There has to be a better way of distributing vaccination without wasting it.
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