U.S. Urges Rationing of Flu Shots as Supply Is Slashed
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Officials said that most healthy adults should delay or skip flu shots so that people most at risk can get scarce supplies.
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U.S. health officials urged states  on Thursday to investigate reports of price gouging by  companies distributing scarce supplies of influenza vaccine and  to prosecute offenders.
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Oct. 12, 2004 -- US health authorities are moving to redistribute millions of units of flu vaccine in an effort to direct doses to high-risk persons who are facing severe shortages this fall, officials said Tuesday.
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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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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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President Bush urged lawmakers on  Wednesday to forgo flu shots at the U.S. Capitol, where nearly  2,000 doses have been given despite government advice to  reserve vaccine for high-risk patients.
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A senator suggested Tuesday that money federal health officials have sought to upgrade flu vaccine production is on the way &#151; an effort to avoid another year like this one, when the United States lost nearly half its supply of vaccine.
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State health officials will now be allocating flu vaccines as high-risk individuals seek out the remaining supply of shots, federal health officials said Tuesday.
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The Minnesota Department of Health is asking health care workers to skip getting flu shots this year, saying it&#39;s necessary to save the scarce vaccine for those who need it the most.
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The shortage of flu vaccine in the United States is &quot;not a health crisis,&quot; Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said, and he urged people to be patient as the government works to reallocate the nation&#39;s limited number of vaccines.
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With flu season around the corner, local providers of influenza vaccines learned recently that supplies will likely have to be rationed because a major producer
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Bee Staff Writer. With a key maker of flu vaccine forced to dump half the nation&#39;s supply Tuesday, the federal government is asking healthy adults to skip or delay their flu shot this year so people at greatest risk can be immunized.
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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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LONDON Oct. 7, 2004 - Stunned US health officials met with British regulators Thursday to discuss the suspension of flu vaccine production that has slashed supplies across the United States and planned to
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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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U.S. health officials on Thursday urged state attorneys general to fully investigate reports of price gouging by companies distributing scarce supplies of influenza vaccine and fully prosecute offenders.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged healthy Americans to forego flu shots, in short supply this year, and said he was not going to get one.