Yesterday, CREW asked why Wall Street firms are receiving H1N1 vaccines before at-risk groups are. That inquiry set off a firestorm. Here's the report from the Los Angeles Times:

Citizens' groups have criticized federal and state authorities in recent days for failing to distribute the vaccine fairly.

"Why is it that so many Americans have had to wait in line and then been denied the vaccine, and others can just walk in and get it?" said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "People might die because people at a lower risk got the vaccine instead. How does some rich 50-year-old banker at Goldman Sachs get a vaccine that a pregnant woman or a healthcare worker in Los Angeles can't get?"

New York City health officials have had to defend the distribution of H1N1 vaccines there after reports that Wall Street firms were among the first to receive shipments.

Vaccines are supposed to be directed to five priority groups: pregnant women, people ages 2 to 24, healthcare workers, caregivers of babies under 6 months old, and those ages 25 to 64 with chronic health conditions that put them at increased risk of complications from the flu.

And, this from BarbinMD at DailyKos:

Anyone else find it hard to believe that Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are employing 1,400 "pregnant women, infants and children, young adults up to 24 years old, and healthcare workers"?

Wall Street wins out over Main Street once again. Whoever made this decision should be fired. Now.