SECONDING HEWITT

Yes, every now and again, the Sid Blumenthal of the Bush administration and I agree on a thing or two. Avian flu could be the next major disaster to hit the U.S. We have advance warning. We don’t have nearly enough vaccine for a flu with a 50 percent fatality rate. What is the federal plan to ramp up vaccine production and research? Why are we not vaccinating people now? And why do we have vastly insufficient stockpiles of Tamiflu, which is the only known effective agent against it? More here.