After the Hysteria

Who could have seen this coming.

Who, oh who?

Who indeed?

Laura Billings notes the story that's been popping up elsewhere, although - amazingly enough - not nearly as prominently as its predecessor last fall.

There's too much flu vaccine.

Those long lines of hacking old people and runny-nosed toddlers vying for just 50 million doses — half what the country ordered — have now given way to nearly empty waiting rooms and nurses who ask you, unprompted, if they can interest you in an armful of vaccine.

Wow. How could that have happened?

Perhaps because of the mindless hysteria generated by people like Laura Billings' husband earlier in the season?

Posted by Mitch at January 18, 2005 08:33 AM | TrackBack