Nov 05 2009
H1N1 shortages across the country, except on Wall Street
While working families, pregnant women and children are struggling to get access to scarce doses of the H1N1 vaccine, workers at the New York Stock Exchange, bankers at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and employees at the Federal Reserve have all been given doses of the vaccine.
The bankers at Goldman Sachs have a stockpile of 200 doses of the vaccine. To put this in perspective, that’s the same amount of doses that Lenox Hill Hospital in New York was given. Citigroup has been supplied with over 1,200 units.
This is disgusting, even more so than the bonus-gate scandals.
“If we know that the distribution is the weak part of this entire thing, why not put doctor’s offices and hospitals at the top of the line,” said Dr. Nancy Schnyderman, NBC’s chief medical editor, “and say to corporate America, no matter who you are, you’re you’re going to have to go through clinics and hospitals like everyone else.”
Instead, while hospitals, schools and community health clinics are in desperate need of the H1N1 vaccine, Wall Street’s investment bankers are allowed to just cut in line and secure scarce doses.
If this story makes you feel as disgusted as it made me, I’d urge you to click this link. Clicking will add your signature to a Credo Action petition urging Goldman Sachs to donate their vaccines.
After receiving over $1 billion in taxpayer bailouts during the financial meltdown, being the single-largest recipient of taxpayer money in the AIG bailout, and preparing to give its bankers as much as $23 billion in bonuses while the rest of country struggles through this jobless “recovery” — I’d say it’s the least they could do.
Sources:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/h1n1_vaccine/
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2009/db2009112_606442.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/swine-flu-vaccine-banks-g_n_346907.html&cp
Nothing new. Just another reward for being pals of Obama and Timothy Geithner. What happened to the promise, from Kathleen Sebelius, that we would have 250 million doses to cover everyone that wanted the H1N1 shot? Remember, she will be over the health care takeover, if it passes. That is beyond scary.
Sounds about right here in canada i cant get my 5 year old asthmatic daughter vaccinated as she is apparently a few months too old, she end up in the hospital on an aspirator every time she gets a bad cold or the seasonal flu…. but our very healthy hockey team (toronto maple leafs) and their families all got vaccinated it’s disgusting.
You know we shouldn’t even be surprised anymore… Money really does make this world turn, no matter how disgusting it gets…