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State ends flu shot mandate
RICK KARLIN AND SCOTT WALDMAN
Timesunion.com
Friday, Oct 23rd, 2009
ALBANY -- Citing a shortage of the vaccine, the
state Department of Health has ended a mandate that most of
the state's health care workers be inoculated against the flu.
Gov. David Paterson attributed Thursday's decision to limited
supplies of the H1N1 vaccinations, a number of doses far short
of the federal government's expected delivery. The decision
also tosses out mandated seasonal flu shots.
"Over the last week, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention acknowledged that New York would only receive approximately
23 percent of its anticipated vaccine supply by the end of the
month," Paterson said in a prepared statement. "As
a result, we need to be as resourceful as we can with the limited
supplies of vaccine currently coming into the state and make
sure that those who are at the highest risk for complications
from the H1N1 flu receive the first vaccine being distributed
right now in New York state."
This summer, the federal government projected 120 million doses
would be available by the end of October. This week, the CDC
changed expected delivery to just 27.7 million doses. The CDC
allowed the state to order only 146,300 doses of vaccine, even
though New York's health providers requested more than 1,482,822
doses.
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