WHO experts: Single dose swine flu vaccine enough
Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
FRANK JORDANS
The Associated Press
GENEVA – A single dose of swine flu vaccine is enough to immunize adults and children over 10 against the pandemic strain, the World Health Organization said Friday.
The global body’s expert group , known as SAGE , said that while more data on children between 6 months and 10 years [...]
PA health officials will provide H1N1 vaccine update today
The briefing will take place at 11:00 a.m. in the state Capitol media center.
A swine flu update
The U.S. may end up discarding unused swine flu vaccine (!?)
Bucks County has changed its swine flu strategy.
York County has received its first vaccines.
Clinton County is planning big swine flu clinics.
Northeastern PA residents are getting more worried.
The number of cases in Venango County has tripled in the past week.
Anxious Crowds Meet Ad Hoc Swine Flu Police
The H1N1 is high demand creating long lines all across the country. People who are low risk are being told to go home or to wait until more of the vaccine is avaiable. The current goal is to get high risk Americans the vaccine but this is tough because people will say anything to get the vaccine.
“I explained to people 65 or older, ‘The reason we are doing this is for children,’ ” said the official, Jonathan E. Fielding, the director of the county’s Department of Public Health. “I told them: ‘They are at very high risk for this flu, and you’re at low risk. I am sure you wouldn’t want to get a shot that left a kid who is at risk in harm’s way.’ ”
People have lined up in Southern California and across the country in recent days in the hope of getting a prick in the arm, but a dearth of the H1N1 vaccine has created an unexpected dynamic: local government officials, hospital workers and doctors in private practice are being conscripted as ad hoc swine flu police.
The goal is to make sure that those Americans with the highest risk for contracting the virus — and experiencing the more dangerous complications that can ensue — get injected first. But the somewhat willy-nilly nature of the vaccine’s distribution in some areas, publicity surrounding President Obama’s declaration of a national emergency and the rather large population legitimately considered high risk have brought hundreds of thousands of people to vaccine distribution points.
Some people beg. Some reduce themselves to lying about a pregnancy, or an underlying medical condition, that would move them ahead of the pack. In any case, officials say it is virtually impossible to verify most of the claims.
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