| Does the Vaccine Matter? |
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By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, The Atlantic, November 2009: Why then has the federal government stockpiled millions of doses of antivirals, at a cost of several billion dollars? And why are physicians being encouraged to hand out prescriptions to large numbers of people, without sound evidence that the drugs will help? The short answer may be that public-health officials feel they must offer something, and these drugs are the only possible remedies at hand. [Read the entire report from the Atlantic by clicking here.] |