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...accordance with a national shortage of flu vaccines this fall, Massachusetts restricted the vaccine to patients 75 years old and above and high-risk patients, including those suffering from diseases like cystic fibrosis, kidney disease and chronic lung problems...
Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commissioner Christine C. Ferguson announced last week that the flu vaccine guidelines would be expanded immediately to include people 65 years of age and older and other high-risk patients not included in the previous restriction...
Despite the shortage of flu vaccines, UHS has not seen an increase in the number of flu cases...
...been a quiet flu season,” said Rosenthal. “We have had a number of patients with typical cold symptoms…but no overall increase in flu patients,” he added...
...Rosenthal cautioned that it is still early in the flu season. The flu season does not generally peak until January or February, when Cambridge temperatures hit rock bottom...