Thousands Queue for Dwindling Flu Shots
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Seventy-year-old Homer Fink spent eight hours sitting next to a supermarket Halloween display to get a flu shot that he wasn't able to get at five other places...
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Only a fraction of the people who need flu shots the most are getting them &#151; including just one in five babies and toddlers, say health officials who hope to boost those numbers as a record vaccine supply heads out this fall.
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The Manatee County Health Department in Florida expected to give out its last 1,050 flu shots for the season Saturday. A recent shipment of about 7,000 doses has eased the crunch
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MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Nearly 1,000 people at high risk of getting the flu called a county phone bank yesterday to register for flu shots.
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Regional Health Department works to make sure that area&#39;s elderly people living in group settings receive scarce flu shots. A new supply of flu vaccine is finding its way to area nursing homes.
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MIAMI -- Hundreds of people lined up at South Florida stores and pharmacies to get flu shots Wednesday, only to learn that the vaccine is running out -- and not everyone who wants one is qualifying to get a shot.
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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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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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The District will receive more than 5,400 adult doses of flu vaccine, a major shot in the arm given the national shortfall that has left many medical providers in the city with virtually no inventory.
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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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Less than one-quarter of the flu vaccine the state ordered for babies, toddlers and older children with serious health conditions has arrived so far, prompting concern about whether enough will be available to fully vaccinate the estimated 280,000
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Good Shepherd Health System expects to run out of flu shots for the public today after people flocked to clinics around East Texas on Monday in the hopes of getting one of the scarce vaccinations.
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Many elderly Atlantans and parents of young children are frustrated and scared that they can&#39;t find flu shots for their high-risk loved ones, medical professionals said Thursday.
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In a typical year, the Martin County Health Department orders about 4,000 doses of flu vaccine and ends up throwing away some of it because the demand isn&#39;t strong enough.
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Police in Royal Oak, Mich., shut down a flu shot clinic Saturday, after thousands of people converged on it, tying up traffic for miles in all directions.
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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. The scene was repeated across the country as the nation's suddenly limited supply of flu vaccine was drained.
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States have begun dropping their restrictions on flu shots now that falling demand has led to surpluses, and some health officials want the federal government to take similar action.