Health officials in high gear to secure more flu vaccine
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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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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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Federal health officials said that senior citizens shouldn&#39;t panic over the availability of flu vaccine because more doses soon will be shipped nationwide.
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State health officials are asking physicians and other licensed vaccine providers to submit requests for about 200,000 doses of influenza vaccine allotted to Arizona by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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WASHINGTON Oct. 19, 2004 - Federal health officials said Tuesday that 2.6 million additional doses of flu vaccine will be available in January and they&#39;re scouring the globe for more vaccine to replace some
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Federal health authorities are considering broadening the range of people who can get flu shots because of an unexpected quantity of unused vaccine.
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The flu vaccine shortage has set off a scramble to find ways to prevent any repetition of this year's calamity, which has restricted shots to those most at risk.
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Most states have enough flu vaccine to meet demand so far this year, federal officials reported Thursday, and one of the reasons is that even those in the high risk category have been releuctant to get inoculated.
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By MICHELLE SPITZER     JOHNSTON, Iowa  -- Health officials are scurrying to secure flu vaccines so the elderly, who are most vulnerable to influenza, have first access to shots after the nation's supply was cut in half.    "We're begging, borrowing and stealing from every source we can come up with," said Paula Frank, a clinical consulting nurse for the Bishop Drumm Retirement Center...
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Kentucky health providers will receive about 97,000 more flu vaccine doses during the next several weeks, state health authorities announced Tuesday.
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The Martin County Health Department is offering flu vaccines to the public while supplies last. To be eligible, recipients must fall into one of the high-risk categories: those aged
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Health officials are urging the public to stay patient -- even as some states are reporting a shortage of flu shots for their high-risk populations.
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NEW VACCINE: State officials expect to receive about 77,000 doses of flu vaccine between now and Dec. 1. That is half of what the state ordered for local health departments and visiting nurses.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. The state health department is developing a plan to get the flu vaccine to those who need it most. State Health Officer Don Williamson says the agency will survey seven thousand doctors, hospitals
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- There should be enough of the scarce flu vaccine for anyone in a high-risk group eventually, according to officials from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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(CBS/AP) The flu vaccine shortage has set off a scramble to find ways to prevent any repetition of this year&#39;s calamity, which has restricted shots to those most at risk.
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Federal health officials said Tuesday that 2.6 million additional doses of flu vaccine will be available in January. The amount doesn&#39;t come close to