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Officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had expected about 40 million doses of the swine flu vaccine to be distributed by the end of the month, but it looks as though a maximum of 28 million to 30 million doses will actually be shipped, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. That's about 25% fewer than expected.
As of Wednesday, 11.4 million doses of vaccine were available, slightly more than half of that in the injectable form; states had ordered 8 million doses; and nearly 6 million doses had been shipped -- including 836,900 doses to California.
Mexico was facing similar shortages of the H1N1 vaccine. Officials had promised 30 million doses, but now say they don't expect the first batch of 5 million to 8 million doses until late December. The delay was attributed to the huge demand for vaccines around the world.
Questions need to be asked of and firm answers need to be made by the CDC. Since the entire world has know of H1N1 since very early this year, why can't the CDC and FDA and all of the vaccine manufacturers do what they said? Pandemic concerning the world is approaching? Isn't that what we have all be told for months and months? The CDC is becoming just like any other government agency and the bottom line is, this is the first real test of government health care.
How do you grade this government health care program?
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