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honeygirl -> RE: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup Got Swine Flu Vaccine (11/7/2009 8:38:41 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomMeinCT
Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.
Interesting, considering our deployed troops have not yet been sent enough.
As the article states, not all the financial companies used the vaccine. Morgan Stanley, for example turned theirs over to a local children's hospital when they discovered that they'd been given vaccines when other, needier groups had not received it. I would question the group/agency that supplies the vaccine -- what criteria do they use to give out the H1N1 vaccine? Whose responsibility is it to ensure that (for lack of a better term) more worthy groups/individuals receive the vaccine?
From Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/idUSTRE5A44QI20091106?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=11604
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"We never thought we would receive doses ahead of area hospitals and once this was brought to our attention, we promptly donated the doses we received to a few area hospitals," including Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in New York, a company spokeswoman said.
I mean, I can ask for anything -- is it then my fault if I get it?
If rules and guidelines about priority have been established by the group who distribute the vaccine, and the companies/groups put in requests -- thinking prioritized lists will be in place and honored -- and the same group who established the rules and guidelines, give it to the companies ahead of schedule and ignore their own vaccine distribution rules and guidelines, that is their mistake (a costly one!).
Obviously, as other articles (the Reuters one in particular) point out, it was not simply financial companies who received vaccines too soon -- Columbia University did as well. When I first read about the vaccines going to the top employers in NYC, I thought "hmmm, I wonder if someone forgot to update some automatic script/checklist/etc that is in place during the normal vaccine cycle??"
It really is too bad that GS and Citi didn't seem to do the right thing (IMO) with their vaccines. I hadn't read about what Columbia did with theirs.
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