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| U.S. may end up discarding unused |
| U.S. may end up discarding unused H1N1 vaccine
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 28-October-2009
10:47:19 AM |
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The U.S. government may end up throwing away unused doses of swine flu vaccine if people cannot get it soon enough, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
Members of Congress questioned whether federal officials were too rosy in their estimates of how much vaccine would be available and when, and companies said they were still struggling to produce immunizations against H1N1.
CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said 22.4 million doses were now available to states, which can get them a day after they order them.
"It's quite likely that too little vaccine is one of the things that's making people more interested in getting vaccinated, frankly," Frieden told reporters.
"We think it will get easier to find vaccine in the weeks that come."
President Barack Obama's daughters found it. "Malia and Sasha were both vaccinated for H1N1 last week, after the vaccine became available to Washington, D.C. schoolchildren," a White House blog reads.
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