Thompson Tells Elderly Not To Stand In Line For Flu Shots
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TAMPA, Fla. -- Don&#39;t panic; there&#39;s no need for seniors to wait in long lines for flu shots. That&#39;s the message from US Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.
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Around the country, tens of thousands of senior citizens have hunted down and lined up for flu vaccinations over the past several weeks, with many turned away at the clinic doors.
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James Allen&#39;s doctor said years ago that he should get a flu shot every year, but that advice is easier said than done this season when flu vaccine is scarce, even for the elderly.
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With much of Maine&#39;s supply of influenza vaccine suddenly in jeopardy, state health officials are urging healthy adults not to get flu shots so that enough medication
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Don&#39;t expect flu vaccines from Canada and overseas to fill the void left by the British government&#39;s decision to shut down a major US supplier, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said Thursday.
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DENVER - While officials across the nation are urging healthy adults and schoolchildren to skip their annual flu shot, parents are mulling their options. The news that British regulators have shut down a major flu-shot supplier carries particular concern in Colorado, which was the epicenter of last year's flu season with 12,885 reported cases and the deaths of 12 children...
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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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There&#39;s enough flu vaccine available now for seniors and others at high risk, but many have given up trying to get a shot, worried health officials said yesterday.
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Seventy-year-old Homer Fink spent eight hours sitting next to a supermarket Halloween display for a flu shot that he wasn't able to get at five other places...
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US Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy Thompson, says the flu vaccine shortage is not a health crisis. At a press conference in Florida Monday, Thompson told seniors to stop waiting in long lines to get a shot.
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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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People 65 and older and babies under 24 months are first in line for dwindling supplies of flu vaccine. Marion General Hospital and the Grant County Health Department will distribute the vaccine
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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 pre-election exchange  of accusations between Democrats and Republicans on Monday.
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She is 82 years old, has emphysema and was turned away from two Marion County Health Department flu clinics last month when there was neither enough parking at one nor enough shots remaining at the other.
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Local physicians and health-care officials urge Licking County&#39;s healthy adults to forgo a flu vaccine this year so those most at risk -- people 65 or older, babies and patients
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While many elderly Americans are  standing in long lines for flu shots, the vaccine is readily  available for free to members of Congress and staff at the U.S.  Capitol, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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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.