(for those losing on the LOTTERY....it's a DEATH sentence...this is a complete failure of the bush* cabal....boot these criminals OUT....go VOTE these bastards OUT on Tuesday, Nov. 2nd)....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55426-2004Oct22.html-snips-
The District will receive more than 5,400 adult doses of flu vaccine from Congress, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and a downtown legal firm -- a major shot in the arm given the national shortfall that has left many medical providers in the city with virtually no inventory.
"It's only a fraction of the need," said the city's acting health director, Gregg A. Pane. "Still, 5,400 doses are better than none or a few." They will be distributed largely through the D.C. Hospital Association and two medical societies, as well as the primary care organization that represents community clinics and the Whitman-Walker Clinic, which treats many HIV patients. City paramedics also will benefit.
The "data-driven distribution," Pane said, should ensure that the most vulnerable populations are the most likely to benefit -- the elderly, adults with chronic conditions and frontline health-care workers and emergency responders.
The plan is a far different from Montgomery County's (Maryland): It is holding a lottery that so far has more than 16,000 county residents vying for 800 flu shots. --------
Norton and Pane urged other businesses and doctors to do the same with any vaccine that will not go to high-risk employees or patients.
Pane estimated that 25,000 doses are in private practitioners' hands. "It's a maldistribution," he said.-------------