Maine: Kids First, Cons Maybe After That
Massachusetts is rushing swine flu vaccine to the prisons. Maine says, schools first, prisons … maybe later. Finally, a public official who says “It’s about the kids” and apparently actually means it. That doesn’t happen around here much. Boston Herald:
“Our plans take us to the end of October, and we don’t have prisoners on the list,” Dr. Dora Ann Mills, Maine’s public health director. “Our focus is on schools now. We will start adding prisoners to the mix in November or December.”
She told the Herald that schools are like “petri dishes” for the flu so they must take priority. Only an actual outbreak at a prison could change that plan.
The Herald reported yesterday that in Massachusetts, plans are being made to ship swine flu vaccines to correctional facilities to inoculate health care workers and “high risk” inmates there two weeks before the doses become widely available to the general public in late November.
Previously, from The State That Brought You Willie Horton … make way for inmates!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:51 am on Friday, October 16, 2009
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