Maryland Lottery for flu vaccine: over 16,000 trying for 800 FLU SHOTS

[diamond14]

(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

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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.
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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.

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[oscar111]

1. chaos instead of logic

i assume "private practicioners' can use their supply on anyone with no oversight.

Like their own cousins,business buddies, cronies. , stockbroker, banker.. sort of a bribe for better treatment at the bank later on. Get a loan forgiven.

As to lotteries, that is on the face of it absurd. To those who most need it is logical, even within groups that are high need. eg, within paramedics, those with asthma should get it first.

At least this exposes cronyism more publicly than usually happens.

[Blackrain]

2. I use to get the flu all the time until..

I started taking multi vitamins and started to excercise. Then all the sudden I was flu-less.