Prioritizing Flu Vaccine: Individual Patient vs. Aggregate Rules

This is a fairly big issue and I’ll probably devote more than one post to it.
In recent days newspaper headlines have made misleading statements that relate to how to ‘prioritize’ swine flu vaccine (potentially demand will exceeed supply).
For example, one headline today ran “Flu vaccine to pregnant women first“. What the study in question [...]

Protect Yourself from the Flu – Video

Protect Yourself from the Flu
A leading flu vaccine producer, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has generously released this audio-visual presentation, originally developed for their employees, to the public:
GSK flu prevention video
When the new window opens, press the “Next” button on the lower right to continue.
This is the best presentation of its kind available today. Watch it yourself [...]

College Tuition: Inflation or Hyperinflation?

As promised, here is a graph showing the disparity between general cost-of-living inflation and inflation associated with college tuition and fees (if the student I promised this to reads this, please let me know if the post is clear):

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics and the College Board.
The figure compares inflation over the last 30 [...]

The Injustice of High College Tuition

I met a college student last weekend and promised her I’d put a post online about the outrageously high cost of college tuition.  I’m working on some figures now and hope to post a chart by tomorrow.
Meanwhile the bottom line remains the same.  It doesn’t matter much which inflation indices or economic indicators one looks [...]

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My websites (listed on the panel to the right) are currently under construction.
My old service provider (Compuserve Ourworld) has closed, and I’m gradually moving pages to a new provider. This may take a week or two.
Please be patient with any broken links, etc.
John Uebersax