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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (538216)12/28/2009 4:55:09 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1575764
 
he fact that all countries have shortages suggests a problem that transcends US policies.

Not really. For one thing other countries also have problems that contribute to the problem. For another the generally the US is a source of an outside percentage of the funds used to develop and test new drugs and bring them to market, the limits we impose on vaccine takes away a lot of the incentive that would have been there to push development of new techniques faster, reduce that incentive, and you contribute to creating problems for the world, not just the US.

Look, Tim, my cousin is an MD. He and I have talked ad nauseum about this subject. Why? Because I have COPD. It was imperative I get the vaccine as soon as it was available. With any new strain of flu, it takes six months to go from isolating the virus to getting it to people. With H1N1, they isolated the virus in May or June. The fact they got some of the virus out in October was amazing. There would not have been shortfalls had the vaccine producers not misjudged the yield numbers. The fact that they did screwed up vaccine supply in every nation on earth. It was unavoidable.

Now if you want to believe something else, then do so but leave me out of it.
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