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...used for children, we wanted to make sure and get the vaccine to the children while we could," says Brandi Binkley, director of Health Promotion for the Macon County Health Department in Decatur, Ill. "Since October 1, we've had 24 people who were hospitalized and lab-confirmed H1N1 and five of those were this week, seven were last week. And our median age is 9 years old here...
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...
Some states like Massachusetts have been forced to postpone flu clinics for the general population altogether, given production delays for both the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines. "We have heard from various parts of the country, from clinicians to other folks who are part of being providers of the vaccine, that they have not received their supply that's been ordered, unfortunately," says Llelwyn Grant, spokesperson for the CDC. "We recognize we're behind the curve in getting out the amount of doses to support many of the clinics and other facilities that are set up for the vaccine...
...Read "H1N1 National Emergency: Time for Concern, Not Panic...
...graphic of how the H1N1 virus works...