Vaccine reserved for those at risk
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Health officials yesterday said 22.4 million unshipped doses of flu vaccine will be made available to people who are most at risk of getting the virus.
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A month ago, seniors were standing five hours in the sun for flu shots and the fear was the vaccine would run out. Now, with several months still remaining in the flu season and not even half the at-risk population
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ATLANTA -- A top US health official on Monday told senior citizens and other &quot;at-risk&quot; groups to relax about the flu vaccine shortage.
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Deployed military troops, emergency workers, pregnant women and children will be among the first to get scarce vaccinations if a pandemic strain of flu breaks out, U.S. officials said.
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(CBS/AP) The flu vaccine shortage has set off a scramble to find ways to prevent any repetition of this year&#39;s calamity, which has restricted shots to those most at risk.
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SACRAMENTO The state&#39;s top health official has ordered doctors and health care workers to reserve flu shots for high-risk patients such as the elderly and young children.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are considering easing the restrictions.
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Worried that tens of thousands of doses may go to waste, a federal advisory panel wants the government to ease restrictions on the nation&#39;s supply of flu vaccine.
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Unfortunately, when we&#39;re talking about flu vaccinations and not Cabbage Patch dolls, the bottom line is very different for those most vulnerable to illness - the elderly and the very young.
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Officials said that most healthy adults should delay or skip flu shots so that people most at risk can get scarce supplies.
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State public health officials announced yesterday that Massachusetts will receive an additional 262,630 doses of the in-fluenza vaccine, but that only those people considered most at-risk are eligible to get a shot.
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About 6,000 to 8,000 doses of influenza vaccine will be available this month to St. Louis County residents who are considered to be at high risk of catching the flu.
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Issues of fairness have become such a prime concern in divvying up scarce doses of flu vaccine, that health officials now are asking whether some high-risk groups are more deserving than others.
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People in high risk groups will have the opportunity to get influenza immunization shots next week at the St. Clair County Health Department.
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A vaccine mist provided protection against the flu Friday for a few hundred local health care workers. With injectable flu vaccine in short supply even for people in the
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At least one local health department has set guidelines for who may received flu vaccine that are tougher than the limits spelled out in an emergency order from the state.
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The flu vaccine shortage the United States is experiencing demands that everyone remain calm and give those at highest risk of serious illness or death first chance in line.