Ethicists raise questions about how to ration vaccines in a flu pandemic
Friday, May 12, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Who should get the first flu vaccine during a worldwide outbreak -- the 60-year-old grandmother with a weak heart and lungs or the healthy 4-year-old with decades ahead of her?
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