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

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.