January 12, 2005
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N.E. pushes to find takers for flu shots (Stephen Smith, January 12, 2005, Boston Globe)
Three months after the emergence of an unprecedented national shortage of flu vaccine, public health departments across New England are struggling to find takers for remaining doses, raising the prospect that surplus shots will be thrown away at the end of the flu season.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 12, 2005 9:16 AMIn Vermont, the governor offered himself as the poster boy for a push to get rid of 5,000 remaining doses, rolling up his sleeves Monday for a shot. The Boston Public Health Commission is imploring homeless shelters, nursing homes, and community health centers to find recipients for 1,500 doses. And the Bay State's commissioner of public health appears poised to lift all restrictions on who is eligible to be vaccinated against a disease that takes 800 to 1,000 lives each year in the state.
The Boston Globe has determined that more than 300,000 doses of flu vaccine may still be available in all six New England states.
I think the MSM should pay for the excess, they started the run on vaccines.
Posted by: Sandy P at January 12, 2005 10:14 AMNJ illegalized the innoculation of people aged 14-65 with flu vaccine this past season. After spending three days out of work(my first illness-related absence in about a decade), New Years Day and Eve in bed, and getting bed rest whenever I could, all while suffering from a mixture of sore throat, chest congestion, a head that felt like it was as big as a watermelon, a stuffed up nose that required 5 boxes of kleenex, and all manner of interesting aches and pains, I think these New Englanders ought to be taken out and shot and not with vaccine.
Posted by: Bart at January 12, 2005 11:20 AM