Flu shot restrictions may cause doses to go to waste
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ATLANTA A CDC advisory committee is expected to hold an emergency conference call today on whether more people should be allowed to get flu shots.
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As the flu vaccine shortage hits home and long lines queue around the supermarket, a handful of states and the nation's capital are threatening doctors and nurses with fines or even jail if they give flu shots to healthy, low-risk people.
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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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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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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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The US government announced Friday that nearly half of this year&#39;s flu vaccine supply will arrive about a month late because some doses may be contaminated.
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A federal advisory panel in the US is worried that tens of thousands of flu shots will go to waste and is recommending the government ease restrictions on the current supply of flu vaccine.
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LONDON - U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the U.S...
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The shortage of flu vaccine has left older people and public health officials scrambling to find shots. But the limited supply could mean that more people at high risk will get the vaccine this year.
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The Martin County Health Department is offering flu vaccines to the public while supplies last. To be eligible, recipients must fall into one of the high-risk categories: those aged
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Last week, the Chiron Corporation, which manufactures close to half of America&#39;s influenza vaccine supply announced a delay in shipping its Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine, due to the possibility of contaminated doses.
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WASHINGTON The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 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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Consider yourself lucky if you managed to get one of the increasingly scarce flu shots from a swamped supermarket or drugstore clinic this week.
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State and local health departments will soon receive additional doses of the much-needed flu vaccine, but health officials say the new shipments won&#39;t be enough to meet the needs of all high-risk patients.
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U.S. officials who just weeks ago  worried that the nation's flu shot supply would run short said  on Friday they are expanding the group of people who should get  the vaccine so that doses do not go to waste.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are considering easing the restrictions.
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Americans' supply of flu vaccine was cut in half Tuesday as Britain abruptly shut down a major supplier just as flu season is about to begin. Facing a record shortage, U.S. health officials scrambled to reserve remaining shots for the elderly and others at highest risk from influenza.