State orders flu shots saved for the weakest Bay Area counties ...
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California&#39;s top medical officer, underscoring the gravity of the nation&#39;s sudden shortage of influenza vaccine, ordered all health care providers in the state Friday to stop giving flu shots to healthy adults and to vaccinate only those deemed at highest
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WASHINGTON - Many of the nation's scarce remaining flu shots will be shipped directly to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for high-risk patients, under a plan negotiated between the government and maker Aventis Pasteur.    The targeted shipments come as health officials struggle to ensure the people who most need flu shots get them, now that the nation's supply of influenza vaccine has been slashed in half...
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Michigan&#39;s local health departments are playing a key role in helping distribute scare flu vaccine to areas of the state that need it most, state health officials said Friday.
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Demand for flu shots has cooled in some states, prompting some to ease restrictions on who gets a shot so vaccine isn&#39;t wasted amid a national shortage.
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Clark County will get 7,880 additional doses of flu vaccine this week but as in previous allocations, it will be restricted to people in priority categories.
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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.
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SAN DIEGO - San Diego County health authorities today received from the state an additional 24,000 doses of adult flu vaccine â-o be distributed to those considered at high risk for complications from the illness.
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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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Coos County Public Health has canceled all flu shot clinics due to the vaccine shortage. The department will update residents on its plans as vaccine becomes available from the state.
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State health officials urged physicians yesterday to administer influenza shots only to high-risk individuals because of a nationwide vaccine shortage.
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Though a federal advisory committee has recommended easing restrictions on flu vaccine, state and local officials said Saturday that the shots will not be available this week to healthy people between the ages of 50 and 65.
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The Collier County Health Department has received a small supply of flu vaccine and will schedule appointments soon to vaccinate high-risk individuals who are still waiting for the immunization.
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California health officials will distribute 315,600 flu shots next week, but health officials didn&#39;t know Wednesday how many of those will come to the High Desert.
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Nursing home residents will get their flu vaccinations by Dec. 19, state health officials announced yesterday as much of the frenzy surrounding the vaccine shortfall dies down.
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MARION -- The Marion County Health Department currently has a limited supply of flu vaccine for high-risk children and the shots will only will be given during the regular Infant and Childhood Immunization Clinic held on Tuesdays.
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Flu vaccines should be easier to get after this week, state health officials announced Tuesday. The bulk of the stateâs vaccine order has arrived, and health
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The government moved Tuesday to direct scarce remaining flu shots straight to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for the patients who need them most.