Fines, Jail Used to Enforce Flu Shot Rules
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Thinking of trying to wheedle a flu shot from your doctor even though you're not at high-risk for flu complications? Forget about it in Michigan. Or Washington, D.C. Or Massachusetts.
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Who should get the flu shot first: A sick nursing home resident or a toddler? A pregnant woman or a jail inmate with AIDS? Those are the choices health officials across the country are struggling
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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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CHARLOTTE, NC - Hundreds of people lined up at the Mecklenburg County Health Department on Monday to receive a flu vaccine. In fact, some were lined up at the doors of the Beatties Ford Road clinic two hours before it opened at 8:30 am.
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Flu vaccines are being distributed for people considered most at risk this flu season according to new criteria released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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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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The pressure on doctors to give flu shots only to those who need them most just got a little stronger. Erie County&#39;s top health official issued a commissioner&#39;s order Wednesday that directs
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A Martin County health official says common-sense tactics can help ward off the virus. By Valerie Nienberg. This flu season, an ounce of prevention is worth its weight in vaccine, a Martin County health official said Wednesday.
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The state Department of Public Health just got in 92,000 additional doses of flu vaccine. On Nov. 16-17, Alabama&#39;s 67 county health departments will make the coveted medicine available free to the public.
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The Jefferson County Department of Health will begin making flu shot appointments Monday for Thursday and Friday, 8 am to 4 pm Shots will be available only to people in high-risk categories: children 6-23 months; adults 65 and older; anyone older than 2
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State health officials further eased restrictions on the flu vaccine yesterday, making the shots available to people 50 and older.
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Bee Medical Writer. State health officials Friday took the unprecedented step of ordering all health care providers to limit flu shots to those at highest risk of serious illness or death from the disease.
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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County health department today will give free flu shots to at-risk residents at 16 clinics across the county.
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TRENTON -- New Jersey Health Commissioner Clifton Lacy now has legal control over the short supply of flu vaccine in New Jersey, thanks to an emergency bill pushed through the Legislature.
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SARASOTA -- The Sarasota County Health Department has set up a series of flu clinics to distribute an additional 20,000 doses of adult flu vaccine to high-risk residents.
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TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey officials now have some muscle to control the flu vaccine shortage. Gov. James McGreevey has signed into law emergency legislation that would fine doctors $500 who inoculate low-risk people.
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Health department officials have scheduled a three-day vaccine clinic in Macon next week for flu and pneumonia shots. The Macon-Bibb County Health Department will be vaccinating people between