"Who lives? Flu crisis may make us pick"

Yesterday's St. Petersburg Times was the latest publication to run a feature talking about which groups should receive vaccines first in the event of a shortage in the early stages of an avian flu pandemic. It's another of the stories surfacing in response to the Emanuel/Wertheimer piece in Science earlier this month (which we've discussed here and here.)

The story includes the perspectives of Greg Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group and a member of ACIP, Bruce Gellin, director of the National Vaccine Program Office at HHS, and our own Art Caplan.