Some states ease flu-shot criteria
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Demand for flu shots has cooled in some states, prompting at least four of them in recent weeks to ease restrictions on who gets a shot so vaccine isn&#39;t wasted amid a national shortage.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are now worried that tens of thousands of doses could go to waste, and they are considering easing the restrictions.
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There are concerns in at least two US cities that residents who thought they were getting flu shots may have been injected with something else.
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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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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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_ Westchester County will stop administering flu shots after Friday to conserve its waning supply of vaccine for possible outbreaks in hospitals or nursing homes, the county Health Department announced.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are worried that tens of thousands of doses could go to waste, and they are considering easing the restrictions.
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WASHINGTON - 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.    But only a fraction of the 22.4 million doses that maker Aventis Pasteur has yet to ship can be diverted to areas with the biggest shortages...
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People 50 and older became eligible for flu shots Monday after Clark County health officials revised guidelines for the influenza vaccine.
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RICHMOND, Va. State health officials are urging healthy Virginians to skip or delay getting flu shots this fall to save the scarce vaccine for people who are at high risk of experiencing serious complications if they catch the disease.
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With the peak of the flu season approaching, many Americans who should have received vaccine shots have not yet been inoculated, federal officials reported yesterday.
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If one of your New Year&#39;s resolutions is to get a flu shot, it&#39;s one you don&#39;t want to put off much longer. Only about 250 doses of flu vaccine are still available to residents of Yellowstone
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Wisconsin ordered health care providers Friday to administer flu vaccines only to residents who fall into high-risk categories, in response to the nationwide shortage.
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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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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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The country&#39;s last 11.6 million doses of flu shots mostly will be divided up among states, for their health departments and officials to dole out to high-risk groups, the government said Tuesday.
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A FEDERAL ADVISORY panel late last week recommended an easing of government restrictions on the nation&#39;s flu shot supply. The panel now recommends the shot for everyone age 50 and older.