Originally Posted By: ponder
DATELINE: 02.11.2008
Once again the CDC has delayed admitting they are selling the wrong flu vaccine until massive promotion has sold the inventory.

From the 2/11/2008 CDC News Conference on Influenza, Dr. Joe Bresee--"...the predominant virus so far this year is an H1N1 A virus. Of those, 96 percent, or virtually all those viruses, look very much like the vaccine strain and should be well covered by the vaccine..." The reality is more complicated than this single sentence, but it's definitely more accurate than saying it is the "wrong flu vaccine."