Flu-shot search a futile frenzy
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The phone message was simple but urgent: &quot;Please help me. I&#39;m 87. I need that shot.&quot;. The voice on the other end belonged to Evelyn Sherwood, who lives in Parker.
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There&#39;s enough flu vaccine available now for seniors and others at high risk, but many have given up trying to get a shot, worried health officials said yesterday.
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Federal health officials scrambled yesterday to secure more flu shots as lines of seniors and others most vulnerable to the illness grew at the few San Diego County retail sites offering the scarce vaccine.
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MIAMI -- Hundreds of people lined up at South Florida stores and pharmacies to get flu shots Wednesday, only to learn that the vaccine is running out -- and not everyone who wants one is qualifying to get a shot.
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This season's flu-shot shortage is enticing companies to enter a market that others have largely abandoned because of poor profits.- The Washington Post
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Unlike last year when health officials urged more people to get flu vaccines, authorities are asking the public to save the supplies for those most at risk after half of the nation&#39;s anticipated supply of vaccine became unavailable last week.
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The flu-vaccine shortage has already dredged up folks trying to make a quick buck off the situation. &quot;We are getting a few calls from physicians saying they have been offered a vial of vaccine
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It&#39;s the time of year when people start thinking about getting a flu shot. A manufacturing problem had delayed shipments intended to arrive over the summer.
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Americans are streaming into Canada -- in some cases by the boatload -- in search of flu vaccine.
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WASHINGTON - Federal health officials are urging doctors to restrict flu shots to those patients at highest risk from influenza, an appeal for voluntary rationing after the nation's vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, citing manufacturing problems at the Chiron Corp...
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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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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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Bee Columnist. Here we go again. If it&#39;s fall, it must be time for our annual flu scare. Last November, it was the killer influenza that failed to materialize.
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A shortage of flu vaccine has led to lines for injections while the authorities are battling to halt price gouging for the vaccines available.
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Suzanne Clar was so desperate to find a flu shot for her 93-year-old mother this fall that she called everyone: her doctor, friends&#39; doctors, county, state and federal officials -- even a newspaper reporter.
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The loss of one-half of the nation's expected flu vaccine inventory has sparked widespread public anxiety over where to find remaining vaccine and challenged health providers to get unshipped stocks to those who most need them.
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Federal health officials are scrambling to handle an unexpected shortage of flu vaccine, but it is too early to know how the situation will affect local supplies.