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...ensure they would get the vaccine when the clinic doors opened at 9. Over the next several weeks, the county will distribute the 300,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine it received out of the 1.3 million doses sent to California by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of public health and health officer for Los Angeles County, says the county will need at least 5.5 million doses to cover those in high-risk categories for flu-related complications...
...Originally the clinic was intended for those without health insurance or access to regular medical care, but Los Angeles County was allowing anyone in high-risk categories defined by the CDC to get the vaccine. This group included pregnant women, health-care and emergency-services personnel, those living or caring for infants under six months of age and people aged 25 to 64 with health conditions that put them at higher risk for flu-related complications. (Test your knowledge about the H1N1 virus...
...even though the emergency declaration doesn't mean the end of the world has arrived, H1N1 remains a serious threat - and the government's response, on all levels, has been spotty. On Friday the CDC reported that the H1N1 virus is now widespread in 46 U.S. states - a level of flu activity that is usually not seen until later in the winter. Since the virus began spreading, millions of Americans have been infected, at least 20,000 have been hospitalized and 1,000 have died - including nearly 100 children. "To be basically in the peak of the flu season...
...those numbers would be to rapidly manufacture and distribute the new H1N1 vaccine. But that's proven even more difficult than health officials anticipated when the virus first began spreading in the spring. Drug manufacturers have experienced setbacks growing the vaccine - instead of the 120 million doses the CDC had initially hoped to have by the end of October, the real number will likely be closer to 30 million. "Vaccine production is much less predictable than we wish," says Frieden. "We are nowhere near where we thought we'd be by now." (See a map of the spread...
...list of about 300 to 400 people who qualify as high-risk according to CDC guidelines...