Government orders more flu vaccine

Government orders more flu vaccine

Wire Services
November 3, 2000


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Washington. Concerned that there won’t be enough flu vaccine to go around, the government has ordered 9 million more doses from manufacturers.

The CDC is saying that though reports of the flu are already starting to come in, the rates across the states are still low.

Production of the vaccine was slowed this year when several of the manufacturers had difficulty growing one of the flu strains, thus causing delays in delivery. As a result most people have been told to wait until December to save the available supply for those most at risk.

The CDC is saying that it wants to make sure that there is as much vaccine available as there was last year, and has asked manufacturers to give priority to those orders intended for high-risk groups.

So far, this season, the CDC has reported that about 28 percent of this year’s 75 million doses of flu vaccine have already been shipped, with the rest to be shipped in November and December.

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