If Pandemic Flu Strikes Who Gets A Shot
November 21, 2007 by mimmson
Filed under Flu Pandemic - Top News Stories
Pandemic flu strikes the United States, killing hundreds. It doesnt respond to seasonal flu shots, so the drug manufacturers concoct a new vaccine for the bug.
It takes time to produce enough shots for everyone. So supply is limited, and the question hangs: Who gets vaccinated first?
Children? Pregnant women? The nurses, firefighters, police officers on the front lines of the response?
A hundred Henderson County residents considered that question Saturday, weighing in on the federal governments plan to distribute pandemic influenza vaccines.
The government tapped only four communities in the nation for the survey. Henderson County is the smallest on the list. Yet, organizers say residents here asked some of the toughest questions, in what was the last of the input sessions for the general public.
“This is a very engaged, a very intelligent and a very interested group,” said Dr. Ben Schwartz of the Centers for Disease Control.
