Sylvania Reflections

Larry's Opinions and Items Of Interest From Penn's Woods

Sunday, October 17, 2004

There's no flu vaccine crisis in England. They have 6 or 7 suppliers of the vaccine, with Chiron, the one that was shut down, only responsible for 14% of the supply. On top of that, last August they saw this coming and increased orders from their other suppliers. The US, on the other hand, relies on two suppliers and did nothing last August even though England kept us abreast of what was happening. Read all about it in Medical News Today.

I'd call this another decision making failure of the present administration. Or am I being overly critical and a Sunday morning quarterback? Maybe, maybe not.


And speaking of Bush, there's an article about him in today's New York Times Magazine. It's called Without A Doubt and was written by Ron Suskind, who was the senior national-affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000. Suskind recently wrote the book "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill."

The article is quite long, but worth the read. It answers a lot of questions about many of Bush's decisions of the last three years. Including the one above.

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