H1N1: Final Scores

As usual, the Swedes win, with nearly 60% of their population vaccinated against the virus.  Otherwise, embattled Health Secretary Kathleen Sibelius and doubly embattled Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be pleased to know that many other countries botched (FR) their vaccine roll outs.  For France's part, the announcement by Roselyne Bachelot, the country's health minister, that the government was recalling 50m doses of vaccine has provoked outcry (FR) that tax dollars were wasted.  If this is any indication, Americans angry about the vaccine shortage may not have tolerated too much vaccine either.

Update: LeMonde diagnoses (FR) the situation more thoroughly (FR), blaming an aggressive policy by the state to minimize risks but that lacked a complementary media campaign exhorting citizens to get vaccinated.