Illinois Helps New York City Get More Flu Shots
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has helped New York City secure 200,000 additional flu shots from overseas, a move that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said would &quot;allow virtually every high-risk New York City
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Citing &quot;an urgent need&quot; at a time of flu vaccine shortages, Illinois asked for federal permission Monday to buy at least 30,000 vaccine doses from Europe for the state&#39;s nursing home residents.
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US health officials say the flu season is off to a slow start and that means the public has more time to get a flu shot. There was a huge turnout to receive flu shots in Grove City, making it hard for some at-risk people to get their vaccine.
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The Michigan Visiting Nurses Association has gotten more flu shots and has added two clinics in Livingston County to help with the vaccine shortage there.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that the city had enough flu vaccine to inoculate the small children and elderly New Yorkers who are streaming into city-run health clinics.
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Stephenson County, Illinois- Stateline residents, who are considered high risk for contracting the flu, will now have their chance to get vaccinated.
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NEW YORK -- The mayor of New York City on Wednesday became the latest state or local official to take direct action to address the flu vaccine shortage by ordering vaccine directly from European wholesalers.
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First it was Illinois, now New York City is also attempting to get large orders of flu vaccines from Europe. Whether or not these foreign supplies will get FDA clearance is still unclear.
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Citing "an urgent need" at a time of flu vaccine shortages, Illinois asked for federal permission Monday to buy at least 62,000 vaccine doses from Europe for the state's nursing home residents.
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The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department has received 4,500 more doses of flu vaccine, administrator Becky Barnes said Monday.
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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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New York City joined Illinois&#39; effort on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of thousands of doses of scarce flu vaccine from Europe, though US regulatory approval of the transaction was still up in the air.
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The chance of getting a flu shot got a little better for some yesterday when the state got word it would receive more than 262,600 additional doses.
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PEORIA - The Peoria City-County Health Department has received a shipment of about 2,000 doses of flu vaccine. Multiple flu clinics are being planned to distribute these new vaccines, health department officials said Thursday.
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BOSTON - By giving flu shots in a different way, public health officials may be able to double the availability of scarce influenza vaccine, new research suggests.
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Up to 132 million doses of influenza vaccine, a record, should be available in the United States for the flu season, health officials said on Wednesday as they encouraged Americans to get their shots.
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SPRINGFIELD (CBS/AP) New York City is joining Illinois in efforts to ease the flu vaccine shortage by buying hundreds of thousands of shots from European wholesalers.