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Only 30 percent of American adults who have tried to obtain the H1N1 influenza vaccine were actually able to receive it, according to a recent Harvard School of Public Health survey...
Moreover, just 34 percent of “high priority” individuals classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—such as pregnant mothers and health care providers—had received H1N1 vaccines by the time of the study...
Harvard University Health Services has offered H1N1 vaccines only to select “high risk” individuals...
...public-health response to swine flu - using quarantines, canceling school and detaining entire planeloads of people when a single passenger appears to have flulike symptoms - the country's officials say the strict measures helped stem the spread of flu. So far, China reports about 36 deaths and 62,800 H1N1 cases - compared with U.S. government estimates of 4,000 American deaths and 22 million infections. China plans to immunize 65 million citizens, or 5% of the country's population, by the end of the year. As in the U.S., health officials are targeting high-priority groups first, including the military...
Read "Behind the CDC's Soaring H1N1 Death Totals...