How did this happen? Why a monopoly that excludes doctors? Who benefits from this procedure? How is it possible that doctors are not provided their orders for the flu vaccine?
Everyone is urged to get a flu shot, especially those in the "at risk" group, but that is the group least able to go from one pharmacy or grocery to another to get a shot. And those fortunate to arrive at or before the announced time are told that numbers have been given out and there is no vaccine left.
Why do people have to hunt for vaccine when the logical providers, their doctors, are kept out of the loop? Where is the local health department? Where is the local medical association? Where are our elected officials?
And, where is the media? Surely this a problem that they should be investigating. This whole thing just doesn't smell right.
Betty W. Mooney
Greensboro
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Oh, the media have been reporting on it. As a matter of fact Fox 8 has told me every single morning for weeks that there really is no shortage. Apparently it is a figmant of everyones imaginations that it is impossible to find a doctor who has the vaccine. Usually the norm is to hear the media stir up a panic by inflating issues beyond their actual impact. Suddenly they are set on convincing me that there really is no problem and that I will have my vaccine in time. I wonder what is the real story there?
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November 11, 2005 8:15 AM