CDC: 48% of Ohioans at risk got flu shots
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Only 48 percent of Ohioans at high risk for flu complications - including fatal pneumonia - were able to get a flu shot this fall, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Too many Americans aren&#39;t getting vaccinated for the flu, including those most at risk -- seniors, children and health-care workers -- U.S. health officials warned Wednesday.
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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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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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Up to 132 million doses of influenza vaccine, a record, should be available in the United States for the flu season, health officials said on Wednesday as they encouraged Americans to get their shots.
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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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Shipment of nearly half of the vaccine needed to protect Americans from flu this season -- about 48 million doses -- has been blocked by health authorities in England where it was manufactured
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com. Delaware County residents who are at high risk for the flu and who haven&#39;t received flu shots may benefit from additional doses obtained for Pennsylvania by the US
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Some poor children in Ohio who qualify for flu shots may have to wait for them because of questions over doctors being reimbursed through a Medicaid program.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansans in high-risk groups for the flu might still be able to get shots, officials said Tuesday. The state Health Department announced that it will soon receive an additional 80,000 doses of the influenza vaccine.
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There&#39;s new information concerning the flu shot shortage situation. For the first time this flu season, some healthy Kentuckians will be able to get the shot and the state will also receive a supply of a vaccine
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Flu vaccine may be as rare this year as a Democrat in the Deep South, but Flu-Central nevertheless has rounded up as many as 5,000 doses of vaccine, which it will start giving to high-risk people this week.
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The first head-to-head comparison of the flu shot and the new FluMist inhalable vaccine found shots surprisingly more effective in adults. The study, involving about 1,250 Michigan adults, found that a needle in the arm was 67 percent to 77 percent successful at preventing the flu, depending on the measurement method. The nasal spray was 30 percent to 57 percent effective.
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About 22.4 million doses of Aventis Pasteur flu vaccine that have not been shipped to customers will be redirected to public health departments, nursing homes and veterans hospitals to serve those most at risk, health officials said Tuesday.
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In the midst of a vaccine shortage that has left the nation with half its supply of flu shots, researchers have found that injecting as little as one-fifth the normal dose into the skin may be just as effective for most Americans as the full dose
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PIERRE, SD - The state has received more flu vaccine, raising the number of doses to 148,462, up from an estimated 123,000 doses in mid-October, the state Health Department said.
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The Onondaga County Health Department will start taking calls today so those considered high-risk can get a flu shot. Health officials announced last week, the county had received 2,100 more doses of the vaccine from the health department.