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Pentagon: Gitmo Detainees to Receive H1N1 Vaccine, Despite White House Claim
Guantanamo Bay detainees will be receiving the H1N1 vaccine, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday, even though White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said minutes earlier that the vaccine is not "on the way." Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Gibbs was correct in saying the vaccine is not ...
New York Businesses Get H1N1 Vaccine
New York Businesses Get H1N1 Vaccine
businessweek.com — Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other large city employers have started receiving small quantities of swine flu vaccine for high-risk employees By Esmé E. Deprez To the list of hundreds of schools, hospitals, and community health centers that have ... (more) New York Businesses Get H1N1 Vaccine
CREW ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO WHY WALL STREET IS GETTING H1N1 VACCINE AHEAD OF THOSE WHO MOST NEED IT
CREW ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO WHY WALL STREET IS GETTING H1N1 VACCINE ...
citizensforethics.org — Wall Street 5 Nov 2009 // Washington, D.C. – 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 ... (more) CREW ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO WHY WALL STREET IS ...
White House: No swine flu shots for Gitmo detainees
boston.com — The White House is trying to nip in the bud a budding controversy over terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay getting swine flu vaccine sooner than many Americans. "There is no vaccine in Guantanamo, and there's no vaccine on the way...  ... (more) White House: No swine flu shots for Gitmo detainees
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Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog — Gibbs says no vaccine for detainees. Pentagon to Gibbs: You lie! Bear kills two militants in Kashmir. DC cabbies are backing McChrystal. Obama administration now actively appeasing the Burmese junta. J Street poet: "I am not a Zionist" Harvard boasts the largest number of MoH recipients outside of the service academies. Good piece in the New York Times (!) on ROTC at the Ivies.

Major National Ad Buy Ties Vaccine Shortage to Health Care, Gitmo
Weekly Standard Blog — ... The fact is that the government still plans to give flu shots to detainees at Guantanamo, statements to the contrary by the White House notwithstanding. Opponents of Obama's health care reform clearly believe that the administration's failure to properly manage the production and distribution of flu vaccine to the American people will resonate with voters as the debate heats up in Congress. ...

Flu Vaccine Shortages and Government Healthcare
Stones Cry Out — ... A new ad will begin to run nationally today that makes the case that the government has no business getting any further into running healthcare given how they’ve handled the H1N1 flu vaccine shortage (as well as sending vaccine to Gitmo detainees before American citizens) (hat tip: ...

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Pence to Pentagon: Rethink decision to offer H1N1 vaccine to Gitmo detainees
thehill.com 21 days ago — The Pentagon's announcement Friday that it would provide H1N1 vaccinations to Guantanamo Bay detainees who ask for it is a "terrible decision," one House Republican stressed Friday. The White House should immediately cancel the program to ensure ...
Gitmo Detainees Will Receive Swine Flu VaccineDrudge Retort
Because people held in detention facilities are at high risk for the pandemic, the Pentagon will offer the H1N1 vaccination to detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, said spokeswoman Maj. Diana R. Haynie.