Fines, Jail Used to Enforce Flu Shot Rules
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LANSING, Mich. - Thinking of trying to wheedle a flu shot from your doctor even though you're not at high-risk for flu complications? Forget about it in Michigan...
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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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Massachusetts public health authorities imposed new restrictions yesterday on the use of flu vaccine after learning that about 1 million shots will be available
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The Montgomery County Health Department will start today with a series of flu shot clinics that will target - and demand proof of - those at high risk from influenza.
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Livingston County health officials have pulled together enough doses of flu vaccine to offer a public clinic Nov. 4 for high-risk adults.
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WASHINGTON -- The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there are some cases in which the general public can receive flu shots, given that tens of thousands of doses could otherwise go to waste.
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The state Department of Public Health just got in 92,000 additional doses of flu vaccine. On Nov. 16-17, Alabama&#39;s 67 county health departments will make the coveted medicine available free to the public.
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Bee Medical Writer. State health officials Friday took the unprecedented step of ordering all health care providers to limit flu shots to those at highest risk of serious illness or death from the disease.
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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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Flu shots will be prohibited for anyone not in a high-risk priority group under an emergency rule the District's acting health director plans to issue Friday.
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TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey officials now have some muscle to control the flu vaccine shortage. Gov. James McGreevey has signed into law emergency legislation that would fine doctors $500 who inoculate low-risk people.
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As the vaccine shortage hits home and long lines queue around the supermarket, a handful of states and the nation&#39;s capital are threatening doctors and nurses with fines or even jail
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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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MINNEAPOLIS -- A woman suspected of running an illicit flu shot clinic in Minneapolis has been freed from jail after posting $10,000 bail.
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State health authorities are recommending looser guidelines for the flu vaccine, extending the injections to people down to age 50 and to certain children ages 2 to 18.
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U.S. health regulators finalized guidelines on Thursday to speed development and production of vaccines against bird flu and seasonal strains of influenza.
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It was Bud Brown&#39;s boss at Freddie&#39;s Casino in Everett who encouraged him to get a flu shot this year. Normally that would mean little more than driving to his doctor&#39;s office and rolling up his sleeve.