Risk/Reward, H1N1 Edition

The Ottawa Citizen has a story up about the H1N1 vaccine.  There's a lot of interesting stuff in it, but these two little tidbits kind of stuck out to me:

According to health care experts, the following groups of people are in particular need of the vaccine:

• People under 65 with such chronic medical conditions as diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, cancer and immune-system problems;
• Pregnant women; and
  
• Children six months to under five years of age.

According to health care experts, the following groups of people are potentially the most vulnerable to the side effects of a hastily developed vaccine:

• People under 65 with such chronic medical conditions as diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, cancer and immune-system problems;
• Pregnant women; and
  
• Children six months to under five years of age.

That's just great.  Rush a vaccine onto the market, and give it to those who are most susceptible to its side effects.

Update:
I just went back to the article in The Ottawa Citizen, and it has been changed so that it no longer mentions those most at risk of the dangers of the vaccine's side effects.  The Citizen has also scrubbed the article of any mention of the Guillaume-Barre outbreak in the 70s that was a result of a faulty vaccine, any explicit mention that so far H1N1 has a similar rate of occurrence to the regular flu, the fact that GlaxoSmithKline has not tested the actual dosage levels that the population will receive, and the fact that the vaccine is being boosted with untested levels of adjuvants - which, in and of themselves, pose potential health risks.

It's easy to claim that those of us who are wary of shoving chemicals into our veins are paranoid, crazy and free riders, benefiting from the vaccinations everyone else will receive to prevent an outbreak, but when there is this level of deception - not just failing to mention some details, but actively editing out the very real concerns of the vaccine - how are we to have any sense of security that we are being given a safe vaccine?

If those who support the mass vaccination really want us all to consent, why do they not address any of our reasonable concerns?