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Obama Administration Escapes Blame for H1NI Flu Vaccine Shortage and Delay
newsbusters.org - 24 days ago
Obama Administration Escapes Blame for H1NI Flu Vaccine Shortage and Delay
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Hard to imagine that if George W. Bush were still in office journalists would hesitate a moment to invoke his name in identifying a culprit for the current shortage and delay in delivery, well beyond the schedule promised by HHS's Centers for Disease Control, of the vaccine for the H1N1 “swine ...
Shortage of Vaccine Poses Political Test for Obama
nytimes.com - 28 days ago
Shortage of Vaccine Poses Political Test for Obama
— nytimes.com — WASHINGTON — The moment a novel strain of swine flu emerged in Mexico last spring, President Obama... instructed his top advisers that his administration would not be caught flat-footed in the event of a deadly pandemic. Now, despite months of planning ... (more) Shortage of Vaccine Poses Political Test for Obama

Comments vote down The Page by Mark Halperin found this 28 days agofound this
Major National Ad Buy Ties Vaccine Shortage to Health Care, Gitmo
weeklystandard.com - 20 days ago
Major National Ad Buy Ties Vaccine Shortage to Health Care, Gitmo
— weeklystandard.com — A major national ad campaign is set to launch tomorrow tying the Obama administration's failure to provide... flu vaccine on time and in quantity to fears of a government takeover of healthcare. The American Future Fund has produced and plans to put ... (more) Major National Ad Buy Ties Vaccine Shortage to Health ...

Comments vote down Ben Smith's Blog found this 20 days agofound this
washingtonpost.com - 29 days ago
Administration officials blame shortage of H1N1 vaccine on manufacturers, science
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Administration officials blame shortage of H1N1 vaccine ...
Comments vote down Daily Kos found this 29 days agofound this

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Think Progress:  Bob Schieffer Likens H1N1 Flu Vaccine Shortages To Hurricane Katrina

Political Animal:  The H1N1 response

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Bob Schieffer Likens H1N1 Flu Vaccine Shortages To Hurricane Katrina
Think Progress — ... the Obama administration announced that it would spend more than $2 billion to buy enough H1N1 flu vaccines to inoculate every American and said that companies could have up to 80 million ready by October. But only a fraction of those vaccines have been produced so far. “[W]e probably did overpromise, and we overpromised on the basis of what was represented to us” by the manufacturers, senior White House adviser David Axelrod said this week. Some conservatives are now calling the mishap “Obama’s Katrina.” Today in an ...

The H1N1 response
Political Animal — THE H1N1 RESPONSE.... Obviously, the more H1N1 flu vaccines that are available to the public, the better. The slower-than-expected production of the vaccine has caused shortages, which can be frustrating for much of the public. But the effort to make this some kind of political controversy continues to be misguided. Some conservatives are now calling the mishap " Obama's Katrina ." Today in an interview with Axelrod on CBS' Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer advanced that view: "What do you do to correct this kind of thing? You're told one thing, you'd have ...

Related: center for disease control (cdc) approved the distribution of the h1ni vaccine to wall street firms
Wall Street At Front Of The Line For H1N1 Vaccine — Daily Kos
Words fail : Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to investigate why the Center for Disease Control (CDC) approved the distribution of the H1NI vaccine to Wall Street firms at a time when the ...