FOR THE RECORD - Nov. 4, 2009
H1N1 vaccine: An article in Tuesday’s Section A on the struggle of healthcare workers to get scarce H1N1 flu vaccines reported that Mike Sicilia, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Health, said that California ranked healthcare workers as the third-highest-priority group for the vaccine, after pregnant women and caregivers of children under 6 months old. Sicilia now says that the state views all five priority groups equally. The two other priority groups are children and young adults ages 6 months to 24 years old, and people 25 to 64 with chronic medical conditions that put them at higher risk for flu complications.
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