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Shortly before 9 a.m. last Saturday, more than 400 people waited in line outside the Balboa Sports Complex in Encino, Calif., anxious to enter one of several Los Angeles County Public Health clinics offering free H1N1 vaccines to those considered high-risk. The first person in line had arrived at midnight, while many others had assembled well before dawn to 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...
...only added to the clamor, inspiring folks who were on the fence to get vaccinated. "I wasn't really concerned until Obama made the announcement. It put me on alert and got the ball rolling," said Adia Armstrong, 28, who took her two young sons to the Encino clinic to get vaccinated. "Kids are dying and I need to protect my kids." (See TIME's guide on how not to get swine...
...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...
...typical winter flu season, according to federal officials. Unlike the seasonal variety, which tends to be most harmful to those over 65 years old, swine flu skews far younger, which explains the large number of parents with children still dressed in their pajamas who waited hours outside the Encino clinic before the sun rose to get the vaccine. (The CDC found that more than half of the hospitalizations from 2009 H1N1 flu reported by 27 states between Sept. 1 and Oct. 10 were people aged 24 and younger. About 23% of the deaths reported from 28 states during this period...
Officials at some of the initial H1N1 clinics offered in Polk County, Iowa, this month were deluged by public demand. The county ultimately expects to receive 273,000 doses of the H1NI vaccine, but had to make do with 6,000 out of the 8,400 doses allocated in the initial shipment. "We were overwhelmed," Rick Kozin, spokesperson for the department says. "During both of the last two clinics we ran out of vaccines before we could treat all the people who were in line. People were frustrated, as were we, and disappointed that they were going to have...