Extra Flu Shots May Come Late
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(CBS/AP) More flu vaccine is expected to be available for millions of Americans in January, but that could be too late. The flu season typically peaks in January or later.
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Another 66,000 flu shots are on their way to Colorado to ease the pressure from a nationwide shortage, but officials have not said who will get them.
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Anxiety over the nation&#39;s flu vaccination shortage is ratcheting up for high-risk patients as lines are growing up to seven hours long at some Bay Area vaccination centers.
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Americans' supply of flu vaccine was abruptly cut in half Tuesday, prompting the government to ask most healthy adults to delay or skip flu shots so that the elderly and others most at risk from influenza can get scarce supplies.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, prompting a record shortage in this country just as flu season is about to begin...
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Fearing that a flu vaccine shortage  may turn into a glut, the Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention said on Wednesday more people should get shots so  the vaccines don't go to waste.
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The city has made some adjustments at health clinics providing flu shots but enduring long waits and arriving very early are still the keys to getting vaccinated.
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ATLANTA - Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are now worried that tens of thousands of doses could go to waste, and they are considering easing the restrictions.
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The mad scramble for flu shots that occurred last fall when the season struck hard and early is not likely to be repeated this year, as a record number of doses will be delivered by the end of October.
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The effects of an unprecedented shortage of flu vaccine continued to ripple Wednesday, leaving the status of the area&#39;s scheduled flu shot clinics unknown.
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Flu shots could be restricted to young children, senior citizens and others at high risk for influenza after the nation&#39;s vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half Tuesday.
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In October and November Americans stood in line for hours to get one of the precious few flu shots. But now that more vaccine is available &#151; with a few million more doses expected from British and German suppliers &#151; demand is dwindling.
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The major providers of flu vaccinations in Erie County say they are out of doses or are nearly out of them. And they don&#39;t know when - or if - they&#39;ll be getting new supplies.
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With the peak of the flu season approaching, many Americans who should have received vaccine shots have not yet been inoculated, federal officials reported yesterday.
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The shortage of flu vaccine has left older people and public health officials scrambling to find shots. But the limited supply could mean that more people at high risk will get the vaccine this year.
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That&#39;s what some nurses are thinking after vaccination sites around the Twin Cities are being left with extra doses of vaccine, despite the nationwide shortage.
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Doctor Mitchell Cohen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, says some parts of the country may not have their supply of flu shots yet.
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Long lines have formed at flu clinics held in retail stores, and others are being canceled for lack of flu vaccine. The unexpected vaccine shortage has raised many questions about how people can best protect themselves.