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Stock prices usually reflect underlying value. But stocks can also be affected by things like summer vacations among hedge fund managers, or by late-December window-dressing by mutual-fund managers who want to have the hot performers in their portfolio at year's end. Brian Belski, chief investment strategist...
There will be a 150 percent increase in the amount of seasonal flu vaccine available this year, and more UHS employees are now licensed to give the vaccine, according to UHS director David S. Rosenthal ’59.
In an effort to counteract the potential spread of the H1N1 “swine flu,” Harvard University Health Services is offering earlier vaccinations for the seasonal flu at more locations, intensifying outreach about preventative measures, and preparing for the worst-case scenario: a flu epidemic.
UHS will receive the increased supply of seasonal flu vaccine tomorrow, and the vaccine will be administered at 40 different sites—about twice as many as last year, Rosenthal said.
The reason for the wait is biological. The first volunteers to test the new vaccine were inoculated in August, and because most people will not have any existing immunity to H1N1, it will require two shots, spaced three weeks apart, to educate the immune system to recognize H1N1, and another...