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Wall Street banks get swine flu vaccine while many children and pregnant women can't

By Brent Budowsky - 11/05/09 11:22 AM ET

Now we learn that while many kids, hospitals and pregnant women cannot get enough of the swine flu vaccine, the major banks and Wall Street firms were given a private allocation. At best, this is a ridiculous distribution strategy; at worst, these firms gave some vaccines not to high-risk people but to high-profit traders and senior managers.

This morning I contacted two very senior Democrats and the White House and strongly urged the president to designate his staff to perform a general audit or monitoring to determine exactly whom the banks and Wall Street firms gave the vaccines to.

I am not accusing anyone of anything, though this policy is bad management at best and does not do well on the smell test. What I am suggesting is that the president and the nation need to determine the truth of how these firms distributed the vaccine.


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