Government can't even run vaccine program ~ By Roger Hedgecock

From WorldNetDaily

By Roger Hedgecock Posted: November 02, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Shortages, rationing, political interference – what more can go wrong in the government's H1N1 vaccine program? Early this year, a new strain of flu killed a boy in Mexico and set off an international warning of a potentially devastating epidemic. Concern over flu epidemics is well placed. Many Americans died in the great epidemic of 1919, including one of my grandmothers. By March, "swine flu" (soon called H1N1) had claimed victims in the U.S., and the federal government swung into action promising 120 million doses of H1N1 vaccine would be available by mid-October. H1N1 claimed about 5,000 dead in the U.S. before the first vaccine had even been produced. By mid-October, only 12.7 million of the originally promised 120 million doses were available, causing the government to ration the vaccine by designating "high risk" groups – children and adults with immune deficiency – as the first to be vaccinated. Pictures of long lines of people waiting in the cold with their kids to get the vaccine became commonplace in local news coverage. Sometimes, after long waits, parents were told that the vaccine had run out. Flu shots are normally available through both public health agencies and private doctors. A presidential emergency order followed publicity about the vaccine shortages, confiscating all the vaccine for delivery only from government sources. The lines got longer just as news broke last week that the terrorists confined at Gitmo had already received their shots. Then things got worse as public health agencies from Nashville to Reno to Seattle reported that the feds had pressured the locals to make sure that illegals of any age or condition get the vaccine. This when many parents could not get the vaccine for their kids. Then many people, in and out of government, began to doubt the severity of this H1N1 flu strain. First warnings raised the fear of millions of deaths. Now it appears that this flu may not kill as many as the 30,000 or so that the yearly "normal" strain of flu kills. Many began to call this the "Chicken Little" flu. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]