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To: tejek who wrote (528731)	11/13/2009 2:12:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576159

Under Murdoch, the WSJ has become filled with ideological bile Not as much as most of your sources, but even if it was that isn't a counter argument. Its just ignoring points you don't like. I suppose actually answering the points is too hard... The reasons for the receding estimates start with the fact that the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, is not growing as fast as expected in the eggs used to produce vaccine. Moreover, some manufacturers did not even know how little they were producing until a vaccine potency test became available around August, federal officials say. That's the proximate cause, but without the other issues I brought up it wouldn't matter. Within the framework the government set up, the government did do a fairly good job. The problem is that the framework allowed the problem to happen in the first place and its a government framework both in terms of the more distant causes (government price restrictions and other long term controls), and the more recent decisions of no adjuvants and time consuming waiting/test requirements (the later might not be a recent decision, but it was a recent decision to apply it to the current situation, and it was a factor that impacted recently, not a longer term factor that set up poor initial conditions for vaccine production).