While parents all over America called their local doctors, school boards and public health officials trying to find out when their small children would be given the H1N1 vaccine which was famously in short supply, news broke that "hi-risk" workers at Citibank and Goldman Sachs received 1,400 doses of the vaccine. It is unclear what is meant by the term "hi-risk," prompting Jessica Pressler, New York Magazine to write: "Hand 'em all over. Even if they do have any pregnant women working there, it's not like they're human." And Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal to note: "It is official: Goldman Sachs is more important than you are." But the most amusing commentary comes from Saturday Night Live.
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