Chicago area is totally screwed up and uncoordinated distribution and shortages everywhere. People who should be getting them cannot. Hours long lines. Main hospitals with no shipments of the stuff.
Here’s a pretty good report from the CBS affiliate here:
“What’s up with the flu shot shortage?”
http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?cid=48
But the government said it was here to help?
My company got it for its employees, or at least many of them. How they did it, I dunno. Will get shot on Monday if I get in line early.
Anchorage Ak has had both avalible in “limited” amounts.
The school were going to have a big to-do and give everyone shots “for free” they canx. The claim is no vaccine.
I believe the real reason for cancelling was disinterest/lack of permission slips from parents.
IOW, No Sale. At least with the many parents we have talked to.
Yesterday, Friday, Senator Lieberman announced he met with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and my state will now get 100,000 more doses within a few days. CT has received 178,000 of the half a million doses Sibelius promised by the end of October.
I want to make sure that the vaccines have not been made a political football.
Curious just how you are going to accomplish that?
Oh, I have all I need.
Not an issue here. No one we know takes flu vaccines. We don’t like getting the flu.
My husband had what seems to have been H1N1 in June/July. He was very sick, and ended up in the ER for a few hours due to dehydration. He developed a secondary infection, partly due to dehydration we suspect. He's fine now, but was hit hard. Our 16 year old son had a sinus infection followed by bronchitis. Today he started his 4th round of antibiotics. He can't seem to shake it. Antibiotics help, but as soon as he completes the course of treatment, it worsens again. There's some residual stuff that's resistant. One of his friends is also dealing with a persistent bronchitis - worrisome.
Six kids died last week [statewide, I think] which was higher than the rate last spring, when H1N1 appeared to peak.
Seasonal vaccine was available everywhere in early September, which is when I got mine.
H1N1 was actually front page news in Seattle today, but no attempt by local MSM to tag Obama with responsibility, just multiple stories about the technical barriers to vaccine production.
Just imagine if a Republican was president...and was trying to take over the health care system to boot!
Multiple issues should never be asked in one question.
Yes, we became an African Kleptocracy a while ago, in fact if not in name.
Yes the flu has become a political football.
For the last 9 years I have gone to our local supermarket pharmacy (Central Valley, California.) Simply walked in, got the seasonal flu vaccine, walked out.
For the last two weeks I have inquired city wide and the seasonal flu vaccine is universally unavailable.
"Next week," or "next month" is the standard answer. Never happened before.
And these total idiots want to run our entire health system?
I get a seasonal flu shot every year. I can’t find one anywhere here in the Kanawha Valley in WV (Charleston area). I waited too late.
Seattle, Washington and Everett, Washington are reporting shortages of free vaccine. Lines of people being turned away with the media reporting all of it in great detail.
Of course this is to make the vaccine seem like “everybody wants to get it so I better get it too.” I don’t think so. The way the government is these days anything they want to give me must be bad. I have no faith in our government anymore. Unless you are in very weak condition you’ll just think it’s a bad cold. I had the flu several times in the 50’s and 60’s I’m still here.
“Pennsylvania continues to place orders with the federal government for the novel H1N1 flu vaccine for more than 4,000 pre-registered and certified providers in the state. However, due to the nationwide delay in the production of the vaccine, it is arriving in the state in very limited quantities. There are currently no public vaccination sites.” http://www.h1n1inpa.com/vaccines/h1n1-vaccine-locations-in-pa/ this is a govt site, which is directed from here: http://flu.gov/ (flu shot locator at top of page with map)
Lincoln County, Oregon yearly flu shot program aborted due to no shipment.
We were 2 hrs over the mountain range in another County and word was Safeway in one town just got a shipment and so we popped in there no appt. needed got our yearly and a coupon for 10% off our grocery bill for getting the yearly flu shot.
Flu so far this year has not been the usual high rate.
It has been (el nino) really wonderful warm/dry weather too considering we live in the stormy PNW coast.
So the flu virus of choice may not be able to grow as it would in cold/wet weather.
That is a great thing. We have had two miserable years of snow/cold almost year round.
Yep inSan Jose. Our pediatrican just got their first shipment.
They had to prioritize who gets the vaccine, and my daughter with a brain injury and seizures is on the high priority list. Her twin sister with asthma did not make the first cut. Their brother is even lower.
My daughter with a brain injury is getting her vaccination tomorrow.
Been reading Hajj Pilgrims are jumping the line and getting the vaccine right after Health Care Workers in some countries. Wouldn't that be kick if we found out Obama's Health and Human Services was doing that here.
As of today, only 100 doses total of the H1N1 vaccine have been received in the Buffalo, NY area (Erie County).
Considering that over 31 million doses have been released in the US, this seems a bit odd to me.
If you do the math, 31,000 doses is enough for about 10% of the US population. There are at least one million people in Erie County, so 100 doses is enough for 0.01% of the people here.