Flu clinics are on hold
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According to Dorchester County Health Department Communicable Disease Director, Lisa Lee CRNP, &quot;We are unable to schedule flu clinics at this time, due to the recent notification of a major flu vaccine shortage.
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Studies of flu outbreaks in Indonesia and Turkey found that waiting for laboratory confirmation of an avian flu outbreak causes potentially dangerous treatment delays.
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Americans' supply of flu vaccine was cut in half Tuesday as Britain abruptly shut down a major supplier just as flu season is about to begin. Facing a record shortage, U.S. health officials scrambled to reserve remaining shots for the elderly and others at highest risk from influenza.
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Influenza clinics offered by Borgess VNA Home Care, the area&#39;s largest flu-shot provider, will continue as scheduled, although the agency has only about half the 20,000 doses ordered for this season.
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The major providers of flu vaccinations in Erie County say they are out of doses or are nearly out of them. And they don&#39;t know when - or if - they&#39;ll be getting new supplies.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- The Mecklenburg County Health Department held its third and final drive-through flu clinic Sunday at the Charlotte Coliseum.
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The Huntsville-Madison County Health Department has not yet received its order of flu vaccine from the state, and has not been able to reschedule its free flu shot clinics.
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The remaining flu doses that have yet to be shipped will be earmarked specifically to the areas and the people who need them most, according to a joint announcement Tuesday
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Long lines have formed at flu clinics in retail stores, and others are being canceled for lack of vaccine. The unexpected vaccine shortage has raised many questions about how people can best protect themselves.
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High-risk patients in the region could have trouble tracking down flu shots as supplies of the vaccine dwindle and clinics are canceled.
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Bee Staff Writer. Sacramento County is gearing up to hold more flu shot clinics with the release of more than 1 million vaccine doses statewide between now and January.
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LONG lines of anxious people have begun showing up at clinics across the United States as people scramble for flu vaccines. Hopes of averting a flu inoculation crisis as winter approaches have been dashed
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In the event of a severe flu outbreak, schools should close for up to three months and ballgames and movies should be canceled, the federal government said.
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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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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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Government guidelines are expected next week to help better organize flu-vaccination clinics and avoid misery, chaos and even death as people have waited hours to get a shot.
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NORTH COUNTY ---- Palomar Pomerado Health&#39;s two hospitals have canceled all 78 of their flu-shot clinics and other local hospitals are taking similar steps in the wake of a critical shortage in the nation&#39;s vaccine supply, officials announced Thursday.