{"id":721,"date":"2005-11-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=721"},"modified":"2005-12-03T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T16:36:41","slug":"vaccine-drug-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/vaccine-drug-whatever","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine, drug: whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know why I get worked up about this stuff, but there’s a boneheaded editor at the NYTimes who today decided that Tamiflu is a flu vaccine<\/a>. It’s not. It’s a drug that treats the flu. There’s a world of difference. The writers of the article, Andrew Pollack and Tom Wright, got this correct, referring to Tamiflu as a drug throughout the entire piece.<\/p>\n

Given the huge debate going on about how to improve the vaccine infrastructure to prevent a flu pandemic, a headline like this is only going to give more people a wrong impression about the issues.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know why I get worked up about this stuff, but there’s a boneheaded editor at the NYTimes who today decided that Tamiflu is a flu vaccine. It’s not. It’s a drug that treats the flu. There’s a world of difference. The writers of the article, Andrew Pollack and Tom Wright, got this correct, … <\/p>\n

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