Syntatic Parser Overload – meltdown imminent

Young girls should get cancer vaccine, panel says

Dr. Cynthia Rand of the University of Rochester in New York said she believed most people would get the vaccine. She has started a series of studies on how many people would take the vaccine if offered.

“The minority of parents we interviewed didn’t think their children wouldn’t be needing it because their children wouldn’t be having sex. But they thought it would be needed in the general community,” she said in a telephone interview.

WTF?

Now to be clear, I am very happy to see this outcome. I really expected a much more difficult battle with the ACIP.

In a complicated vote, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices agreed to recommend the vaccine for three groups — all young girls aged 11 and 12; girls and women aged 13 to 26 who have not received the vaccine yet; and women who have had abnormal pap smears, genital warts, or certain other conditions.

At their discretion, physicians could vaccinate as young as nine, the panel decided. The group also voted to include the vaccine in the federal Vaccines for Children Program, under which the government buys vaccines for uninsured or poor schoolchildren.

But can anyone parse that quote from Dr. Rand?