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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...
...finally got the shot. I was pulled into a shorter priority line for those who were pregnant or with severe health conditions and received one of only 60 doses of the thimerosal-free vaccine recommended for pregnant women. About half an hour after I got my shot, they ran out of this version of the vaccine. The whole process took almost two hours. (See what you need to know about the H1N1 vaccine...
Thousands of people across the country did likewise last week, as county health clinics began distributing their first shipments of the coveted vaccine for free to at-risk groups. However, because of production delays, supplies of the vaccine have been far lower than requested, forcing some counties to severely curtail their original plans. (See how to prevent illness...
Wilson's shipping restrictions were terminated in 1921, and the U.S. remained national-emergency-free until 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed a national emergency so that he could institute bank holidays. Roosevelt never formally ended the emergency, and in 1973 an astonished Senate committee discovered that, technically, it was still in effect - along with three other so-called emergencies that collectively had activated 470 provisions of federal law. For 40 years, the U.S. government had accidentally authorized the President to seize property, control production, institute martial law and restrict travel at any time. Congress rectified this oversight with...
Xinhua gave few details on the two, but U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia's Tibetan service said Lobsang Gyaltsen was 28 and was from a poor family in Lubuk township in Lhasa. Loyak...