Makes total sense to me...loss of workers means loss of profits and investments..it's all about money. They know the swine flu will put workers out for a couple of weeks if not longer and also spread it to other workers...so they are covering their butts persay...keep the money coming in!!!

The reality of the society is that top notch firms gets the priviledge of getting the benefits first over the under-priviledged. This is part of the workers benefit for working in an IB.

I do not know why this has not been explored, but I know someone who is in prison serving a 10 yr sentence for child pornography and he received his vaccine weeks ago. Why are we having shortages for the country's most sensitive population, women and children, and are vaccinating prisoners ahead of them? The news media needs to explore this instead of exposing the wall street firms who legitimately applied for vaccines for their employees.

I'm 65 (66 in 2 weeks), have reached the critical stage of COPD and all I can do is pray I get the shot before the flu gets me.....

I can see WHY the corporations are getting them - to ensure a healthy workforce, which, in turn, ensures a healthy bottom line. But I agree that there needs to be a better system in place for distributing the vaccine. I did hear that supply is finally catching up to demand, so maybe it'll all even out soon enough.

My husband works in Indiana for a food manufacturing company, based in Ohio. Employees and their families received the shots for free from the company as a part of preventative. But i'm sure Obama will take care of everything, he's done a great job so far........NOT!!!!!!!!!

I can understand firms applying for vaccines to keep their workforce healthy. However, I cannot understand why they would get so many. They should have only received an alloted amount that matched their "at risk" workers. I am so happy to hear that the vaccines were to be donated to hospitals so that people who were at risk could receive them. My grandson has a heart defect, and was just able to get his innoculation on Tuesday. Our family was getting quite nervous about letting him out of the house! The distribution of vaccines is definatly poorly managed.

Not only should pregnant women, children, and health care providers receive the H1N1 injections, but what about workers in the fast food industries. Has anyone investigated the corporate offices in the fast food industries, have those top executives received the vaccination for H1N1, and if they did what about workers (drive thru, front counter) will they be vaccinated. Is my fast food safe?

Executives will not see wrong until someone has exposed their GREED.

Would Morgan Stanley have donated the meds if they were not caught?

I find it deplorable that these large corporations are getting these vaccines first, UNLESS they are doing what they say they are and using them only for their High risk employees. I think that everybody should get vaccinated, however, I think that children and other high risk populations should be FIRST on the list! My 10 year old HEALTHY daughter became critically ill with the H1N1 virus. Please visit my H1N1 pediatric survivor page to read her story and become informed about this virus! http://www.facebook.com/pages/H1N1-Pediatric-Survivors/159536069810?ref=nf Thank you.