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CDC and states announce plan to distribute 10.3 million flu shots nationwide.
2004 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Working closely with public health officials nationwide, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced plans to distribute the remaining 10.3 million doses of Aventis Pasteur influenza vaccine to state health departments, which will then help ensure the doses reach those people at highest risk for complications from influenza.
The vaccine will be distributed over several weeks through December and into January.
"The work by our colleagues in state and local health departments across the country that has gone into developing this plan has been absolutely extraordinary," said CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding. "We're doing everything possible to ensure that vaccine is distributed in a fair way and that it goes to those who need it most."
Under the plan, states and territories will be receiving 100% of any orders they had originally placed under federal, state and multistate contracts. Overall, this accounts for 3.1 million doses of vaccine. The distribution plan for the remaining 7.2 million doses takes into account three things: 1) the number of high-priority individuals in the state, 2) the number of doses the state has already received and 3) the state's unmet needs. In the coming weeks, another 1.2 million doses of pediatric vaccine will be allocated to states using the same approach.
"The allocation plan ... designed to get vaccine to those individuals in greatest need of protection, demonstrates once again the critical role the federal, state and local governmental public health system, working with the nation's healthcare providers, can play in protecting the public," said Richard A. Raymond, MD, president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and chief medical officer, Nebraska Health and Human Services System. "While all of the nation's vaccine needs will not be met, this system is fair and will assure that remaining doses of vaccine get to those most in need."
"We support the influenza vaccine allocation method. It is the best available solution for getting the remaining vaccine to the persons who need it most," said Patrick M. Libbey, executive director, National Association of County and City ...
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