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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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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A top federal health official, lamenting &quot;a very fragile vaccine production system,&quot; urged healthy people today to defer getting their influenza shots so medication will be available for those most at risk.
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Description: US Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson says that when all else fails, call the government if you can&#39;t find a flu shot.
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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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A federal panel recommended Friday that anyone over 50 be allowed to get a flu shot, hoping to avoid widespread waste of the previously sought-after vaccine.
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Americans' supply of flu vaccine was abruptly cut in half Tuesday, prompting the government to ask most healthy adults to delay or skip flu shots so that the elderly and others most at risk from influenza can get scarce supplies.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, prompting a record shortage in this country just as flu season is about to begin...
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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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The shortage of flu vaccine has become a major social issue in the United States, with thousands of elderly peopleâthose most at risk of life-threatening complications from influenzaâlining
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Federal health authorities warned Monday that it is unnecessary and potentially dangerous for old and frail people to wait in long lines for flu shots.
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Americans' supply of flu vaccine was abruptly cut in half Tuesday, prompting the government to ask most healthy adults to delay or skip flu shots so that the elderly and others most at risk from influenza can get scarce supplies.
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Many seniors have stood in long lines at private clinics to get their flu shot. Now a new study tells us just how important it is for elderly people to get the vaccine.
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The flu vaccine shortage the United States is experiencing demands that everyone remain calm and give those at highest risk of serious illness or death first chance in line.
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Sitting at a card table in the corner of Barry Coleman's Pharmacy, a 90-year-old woman rolled up her sleeve and got one of the last flu shots available in the area.
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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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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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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.