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Article: Is it fair that Palatine gets vaccine first?(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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Byline: Robert McCoppin Health & fitness reporter rmccoppin@dailyherald.com
Palatine grade school students and faculty soon will be the only members of the general public in suburban Cook County who can get the vaccine against the H1N1 flu virus.
Is that fair?
Some parents and policy makers are starting to wonder.
These include Greg Cox, whose wife and 10-year-old son have asthma, a condition that puts them at higher risk of complications from
the flu and prevents them from getting the live virus nasal spray.
Cox, an engineer who lives in Schaumburg, tried to get the vaccine from three family doctors and his sonAEs ...