Healthy People Told to Wait for Flu Shots
From Times Wire Reports
The nation’s top doctors said they have an answer for young, healthy people who demand flu shots early this year: no. They said a delay in getting enough influenza vaccine doses meant a large supply would not be available until late November or early December. “So we are urging . . . that health care providers focus first on immunizing the elderly and the chronically ill and women who will be in their second or third trimester of pregnancy during the flu season . . . ,” Surgeon-General Dr. David Satcher said.
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