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States, medical providers, and the public remain confused and frustrated by the on-again, off-again shortage-and-then-surplus nature of the 2004-2005 influenza-vaccine supply. That confusion is likely to carry over into next year, complicating the government's long-term efforts to create an infrastructure to respond to a potentially lethal pandemic flu.
That was the message witnesses brought to the House Government Reform Committee at a Feb. 10 hearing.
Although the federal government recommended that people at high risk from flu complications get a flu shot this winter, despite the shortage, "it appears that many high-risk individuals self-deferred from...
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