Goldman Sachs Received H1N1 Vaccine Before Several Hospitals (GS)

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Source: bujsinessinsider.com

Joe Weisenthal|Nov. 5, 2009, 7:20 AM | 2,778 |21
PrintTags: Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, Health



...Goldman Sachs (GS) has received 200 doses in total -- the exact same as Lennox Hill hospital.

Health officials say corporate partners are always part of the distribution of any vaccine.

There's no allegation that they broke any rules, and we're still not quite sure what the whole story is -- mainly it looks like another PR snafu for Wall Street. Some are suggesting that, perhaps, the banks should have donated their allocated vaccines...

Update: To be clear, Goldman confirms that all these decisions are made by the CDC, and that the vaccine only goes to specified high-risk individuals. In addition, as noted by the above BusinessWeek report, 29 companies including Time Warner another others have also been slected as vaccine distribution.




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[nykym]

1. Protect the

rich and powerful first at any cost. Do you honestly think the guy in the mail room at Goldman/Sucks got his H1N1 shot?

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Damn, this is one time I wish the Alex Jones conspiracy types were right......

...and that the vaccine (at least that batch) was really something evil.

These criminals need to be put out of business one way or another.

[yurbud]

23. write the white house, dept. of justice, your senators, and rep and say just that.

[avaistheone1]

32. You should be grateful. The people who run this country and own just about everything

in it are being taking care of first.

Bow to the United States of Goldman Sachs. On your knees, peasant!!!

[bluedeminredstate]

3. GS and big banks have a big PR problem

and stuff like this just makes people madder. When the average Joe or Jane has to wait for their vaccine but Wall Street guys get it sent right to their office it doesn't look good. It just reinforces the perception that rich dudes don't play by the rules. Maybe they make so much goddamn money that they don't give a crap what people think but I think they prefer to amass their piles and piles of cash under the radar...

[xchrom]

4. partners?!? partners?!?

'Health officials say corporate partners are always part of the distribution of any vaccine.'

i read this 'health OFFICIALS' and 'corporate' someboies are somehow 'PARTNERS'?

what are we, chopped liver?

[Autumn]

6. Chopped liver isn't bad,

I would say we are more like dog shit on the bottom of their shoes. edited for spelling

[postulater]

5. "Corporate partners"?

what the heck is a corporate partner? and what makes them higher risk than the non-corporate partner?

[Democrats_win]

7. Proves the rule: only the good die young. Nonetheless, please DIE gs partners!

[Hubert Flottz]

8. They want to be around to spend all that money they've been

stealing.

[Romulox]

9. It's just stunning how brazen it's become. Are we close to a tipping point?

[Delphinus]

26. One would think we are.

I remember earlier this year reading stories of executives in India getting either hanged or beheaded. Time will tell whether or not the American populace has decided they have had enough.

Edit to add: ps: is that a Star Trek chess set? It's been so long since I've seen an episode I can't recall what they're called. It's wonderful to see it!

[riderinthestorm]

10. Wow. Just wow.

I really wonder how these guys go to sleep at night. How do they live with themselves. Some kid, pregnant woman, asthmatic person - someone is going to die of H1N1 because they couldn't get that shot. Yet Goldman Sachs keeps theirs for the rich and powerful among them.

Honestly, when IS the tipping point that it becomes clear to the Republican apologists for big corporate bailouts, that only the rich matter. The rest of us are expendable. I really hope someone posts freeper responses to this. I would love to see how they contort their thinking to justify this.

Despicable.

[Beavker]

12. I'll tell you how...

I really wonder how these guys go to sleep at night. How do they live with themselves.

Having no conscience is how.

[eilen]

29. Having no conscience and they sleep on a big pile of money. That's how. nt

[Beavker]

11. These Bastards

Can line up like the rest of us and get their vaccine, where, I don't know.
My 16mo. old is still waiting because his Doctor's office still doesn't have any and it's running rampant here in Nebraska as I'm sure it is all over the place. Yes these pig fuckers get it. No offense to the pigs.

Too Big to be Infected, Too Big to Fail.

Fuck you Wallstreet Pig/Whores.

[Gin]

13. they don't have a PR problem....THEY are in charge......

they dictate what they want...and we give it to them...it's as simple as that.

[w4rma]

14. The people who really run this country are among those 200. (nt)

[No Elephants]

15. Not only Goldman Sachs.

Citigroup has been supplied with 1,200 units and Goldman with 200, says Jessica Scaperotti, press secretary for the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. The agency has so far approved orders by 29 employers—including 16 that have yet to receive any vaccine—after they were cleared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). Big employers that have received or are scheduled to receive vaccine so far include Time Warner (TWX), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York Presbyterian Healthcare System, and New York University.



Let me guess: they paid more for the vaccine than hospitals did.

The very young are most at risk. How many of them work at GS and Citigroup again?


Dang. The government is indeed getting between doctors and patients.

[fascisthunter]

16. American Public should Revolt

put the fear in the upper class like never before.

[burrowowl]

19. Time to bring out the GUILLOTINE!

Or at least the stocks and put them in Central Park and at night jail with stale bread and water!

[Delphinus]

27. Reminds me of something I read

a while back:
Maintaining a huge and rapidly growing underclass is social suicide. How about we have full employment, clean air and water, universal single-payer health care, a massive investment in education and the future and an equally massive reduction in military expenditure? Nothing to do with heart - it really is just basic common sense. It's stupid to oppress the poor - they tend to run out of patience: ask the Romanovs or the Cuban émigrés in Florida or the people of Viet Nam. -- We have more guns per capita here than is sane. You think the rich account for that stat? -- Just how many rich kids are there in Iraq today? You get the picture? -- 1st world countries take care of their people because the elites {sic} know better.

[MisterP]

33. that's why they have Palin and Beck: they're not afraid of the guns, since they ARE the NRA

it's not a matter of preponderance, but that armament and fear reinforce each other (visible in the 1927 arms-race novel "The Pallid Giant")

[optimator]

17. goldman sachs to receive tar and feathering

christ, this company is evil

[drdtroit]

18. They ARE the owners, any doubts? n/t

[EFerrari]

20. I used to think Gore Vidal was exaggerating.

Wrong.

[Blue_Tires]

21. kick

[ShortnFiery]

22. Wow. Our local Military Naval Clinic hasn't received any for the Sailors and Marines but

BANKSTERS go to the front of the line. How's that for honoring the troops?

[BrightKnight]

24. My sister is a nurse, nephew has type 1 diabetes, brother has asthma and a pregnant wife.

None of them has received the vaccine.

Working with employers is a really good idea for the normal flu vaccine when there is an ample supply.

[kimmerspixelated]

25. Ever think this story is fabricated just to make everyone

panic about a shortage? Not only a panic, but then rage and anger as well, of course.

[Chemisse]

34. If so, it worked for me!

Well not the panic, but certainly the rage.

[Kurovski]

28. Did Obama really have to take money from Goldman Sachs?

I thought he was getting record millions from the totality of saps like me.

[kestrel91316]

30. I can't get it to save my life, and here it turns out I can give it to my patients.

And what if it turns out they can turn around and give it to their people?????

Totally fucked up priorities in this country. ALL veterinarians are by the very nature of their work part of the healthcare system, because ZOONOSES EXIST. But we are on no priority list for the vaccine.

[Enrique]

31. too big to get the flu n/t

[unkachuck]

35. oh yes indeed....

....we must protect those corporate pigs from swine flu....

[joeycola]

36. Too big to fail/get sick. Business in the US as usual.