Votes and vaccines.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

The flu kills about 36,000 people a year. Yet, despite an extensive public outreach effort, only about half of adults 50 years and older (those most likely to die from it) get an annual flu vaccine. Among Hispanics and African Americans, the rates are even lower. Since almost 70 percent of voters in national elections are 50 or older, beginning in 2004, several local health agencies (with support from the Sickness Prevention Achieved Through Regional...