Get the H1N1 Vaccine Where the Poors Are! : denialism blog

ScienceBlogs Book Club: Inside the Outbreaks

Profile

Mark Hoofnagle has a MD and PhD in physiology from the University of Virginia, and is now a general surgery resident. His interest in denialism concerns the use of denialist tactics to confuse public understanding of scientific knowledge.

Chris Hoofnagle teaches privacy and computer crime law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. A former Washington lawyer, Chris wrote the The Denialists' Deck of Cards based upon his experiences working on consumer protection.

PalMD is a practicing internist in the Midwestern United States. Aside from the great joy he finds in his family and his work, he likes communicating some of that joy to others. He has a special interest in the ways patients---and we are all patients at one time or another---are deceived by charlatans. He aims to change the world, one reader at a time. Previous writings can still be found here.

Please read the DISCLAIMERS.

HONcode Certified

This blog is hosted by SEED Media Group; ad space on the top and right side belongs to them. The rest of the content is HONcode certified.

We comply with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information: verify here.

Search

Other

« I Increasingly Am Horrified by My Sex and Apologize Collectively for All Men to All Women | Main | This day in Crankery, November 16th »

Get the H1N1 Vaccine Where the Poors Are!

Category: Anti-Vax Denialism
Posted on: November 14, 2009 11:23 PM, by Chris H

The Viking and I ventured out early this morning to get the H1N1 vaccine and found long lines in the tony neighborhoods. SF Gate reports that the Marin public vaccination clinic was swamped. (The irony!--Marin is a hotbed of the anti-vaccination movement.) So where can you get the vaccine quickly? Downtown! We were in and out in less than an hour! There's almost no one there.

Comments

Same is the case in Washington DC. 3 hour waits in the Upper NW rich areas and walkin, get shot, no wait clinics in the poorer parts of DC.

Posted by: PenguinSix | November 18, 2009 5:10 PM

A lot of people are probably too busy working 2 jobs.

Posted by: rpsms | November 25, 2009 10:20 AM

I got the shot for my daughter in a West Philly clinic (after calling around everywhere in the suburbs where we live, as well as the County and the State!). We were in and out in 20 minutes. And it was free!

Posted by: Enkidu | November 25, 2009 7:58 PM

I find it to still be true today. The under developed areas there is less of a push to get the vaccine.

Posted by: Gary M | January 9, 2012 7:23 AM