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...movement of Southern blacks to industrial cities came just as American manufacturing was beginning to decline after World War II. "That huge migration from the rural south . . . was much too great for a society that was switching from smokestacks to services, from high wages to low, and eventually to chronic high rates of unemployment that penalized the young, the less educated and the latest arrivals. That is, it penalized blacks most of all." Says Wilson: "It's as though racism, having put the black underclass in its economic place, stepped aside to watch technological change finish...
Although young, healthy students probably don't need vaccines, UHS Deputy Director Dr. Sholem Postel said those students who have chronic health problems, including diabetes and heart and lung problems, should consider being vaccinated...
More than 350 Massachusetts communities have in the last three months received 250,000 state-funded doses of the main flu vaccine, intended mainly for senior citizens and people with chronic health problems...
Despite the quick notoriety that it has gained, Taiwan flu is not considered unusually dangerous. As a close cousin of long-dormant strains, however, it poses a particular threat to people under 35 with chronic health problems; they are not old enough to have developed a strong immunity from previous exposures...
...five will actually bother to get shots. The fact that two kinds of vaccine are necessary for many people this year may be a further source of confusion about who should be inoculated. According to the CDC, the two-shot candidates include anyone under the age of 35 with chronic health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, cancer or a suppressed immune response; parents or siblings of children who are at risk; anyone under age 18 who must take aspirin (the combination of aspirin and a viral infection has been linked to a sometimes fatal brain disorder called...