Flu Shots Scarce Even for Most Vulnerable
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THURSDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- Federal health officials estimate that 94.9 million U.S. adults and children are at high risk for influenza and should be vaccinated.
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Demand for flu shots has cooled in some states, prompting at least four of them in recent weeks to ease restrictions on who gets a shot so vaccine isn&#39;t wasted amid a national shortage.
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The intense demand for flu vaccine, fueled partly by its scarcity, has many wondering how the richest nation in the world could be caught so unprepared.
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The flu season is not here yet, but the shortage has prompted an uncertain triage of prevention.
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A flu vaccination shortage that caused lines of anxious elderly people outside drug stores and clinics across America prompted a fierce
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Far too few young children get annual flu shots, particularly those who are most at risk of serious illness or death because they have asthma or other chronic diseases.
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Two months ago throughout the United States, people waited in line for hours just to get a flu shot. Now that the supply of vaccine has broadened, it seems few people are still waiting, the Associated Press reported.
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Oct. 8, 2004 -- Government health officials and vaccine manufacturers warn that they can do little to ease the expected widespread flu shot shortages announced earlier this week.
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High-risk patients in the region could have trouble tracking down flu shots as supplies of the vaccine dwindle and clinics are canceled.
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Federal health officials scrambled yesterday to secure more flu shots as lines of seniors and others most vulnerable to the illness grew at the few San Diego County retail sites offering the scarce vaccine.
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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 Thursday.
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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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Fewer than half of the Americans who most need a flu shot don't get one, federal health officials warned Thursday as they urged a special focus on babies, toddlers and the elderly when vaccinations start next month.
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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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Of the Americans who most need a flu shot, fewer than half get one, federal health officials warned as they called for special attention to babies, toddlers and the elderly as vaccinations begin next month.
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More than half of all elderly or chronically ill adults have not even tried to get flu shots, and health officials are now worried that doses of the vaccine could go to waste.
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Health officials are scurrying to secure flu vaccines so the elderly, who are most vulnerable to influenza, have first access to shots after the nation's supply was cut in half.