Vaccination of swine flu starts
Oct 11, 2009
HEALTHCARE workers in Indiana and Tennessee will be among the first to get swine flu vaccines in the US, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have said. Vaccination clinics are scheduled for today.
HEALTHCARE workers in Indiana and Tennessee will be among the first to get swine flu vaccines in the US, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have said. Vaccination clinics are scheduled for today.
The first vaccines to be administered will be AstraZeneca MedImmune’s nasal spray. The US government has ordered about 250 million doses from five companies. MedImmune had, especially good production of the H1N1 vaccine and has been the first to make doses available.
The vaccines will trickle in at a rate of about 20 million doses a week and officials are unsure how many Americans will actually get them. The US government is providing them for free, but clinics and retailers may charge to administer them.
Reuters
The first vaccines to be administered will be AstraZeneca MedImmune’s nasal spray. The US government has ordered about 250 million doses from five companies. MedImmune had, especially good production of the H1N1 vaccine and has been the first to make doses available.
The vaccines will trickle in at a rate of about 20 million doses a week and officials are unsure how many Americans will actually get them. The US government is providing them for free, but clinics and retailers may charge to administer them.
Reuters