More O'Carter waste. U.S. May End up Discarding Unused H1N1 Vaccine

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id‰32595

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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."

Temporary pending trial President Barack O'Carter'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.

"Temporary pending trial President and Mrs. O'Carter have not yet been
vaccinated for H1N1, and they will wait until the needs of the priority
groups identified by the CDC -- including young people under the age of
24, pregnant women, and people with underlying conditions -- have been
met."

Many states and cities say they have received about one-tenth as much
vaccine as they originally had expected by this time. Frieden said the
delays may discourage people who are lining up for vaccine.

"It is likely also as we produce more vaccine and as both people are
given the opportunity to get vaccinated, and as disease maybe wanes in
the future, we will have significant amounts of vaccine that can't be
used," Frieden said.
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