State eases restrictions on getting flu vaccine
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After weeks of warnings about a flu-shot shortage, Washington state yesterday relaxed restrictions on the vaccine supply and will make shots available to everyone 50 and older.
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State officials now can track flu vaccine shipments on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention secure Web site. Health officials have been grappling with flu vaccine shortages in recent weeks.
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While many elderly Americans are  standing in long lines for flu shots, the vaccine is readily  available for free to members of Congress and staff at the U.S.  Capitol, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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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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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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AUSTIN - The Department of State Health Services has expanded its priority list for flu shots recipients to include people over 50 and caregivers of those deemed high risk.
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Worried that tens of thousands of doses may go to waste, a federal advisory panel wants the government to ease restrictions on the nation's supply of flu vaccine.
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Clark County will get 7,880 additional doses of flu vaccine this week but as in previous allocations, it will be restricted to people in priority categories.
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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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US health officials, taking another step to ease the season&#39;s flu shot shortage, approved the importation of up to 4 million flu shot doses from Europe on Tuesday for patients willing to sign a consent form.
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States have begun dropping their restrictions on flu shots now that falling demand has led to surpluses, and some health officials want the federal government to take similar action.
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At least one local health department has set guidelines for who may received flu vaccine that are tougher than the limits spelled out in an emergency order from the state.
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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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Flu vaccines should be easier to get after this week, state health officials announced Tuesday. The bulk of the stateâs vaccine order has arrived, and health
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King County public health officials warned yesterday that a nationwide shortage of influenza vaccines would leave many local residents without access to flu shots this fall.
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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.
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Livingston County health officials have pulled together enough doses of flu vaccine to offer a public clinic Nov. 4 for high-risk adults.