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Plenty of influenza vaccine available this year: no tiered schedule.(Clinical Rounds)
This flu season, there's no need to skimp on shots.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a sufficient supply of vaccines for the 2003-2004 flu season. This means that anyone--healthy or at high risk--who wants a flu shot can get one as early as this month, when this year's vaccine is made available (MMWR 52[33]:796-97, 2003).
During the years of insufficient supply (2000-2001, 2001-2002, and 2002-2003), the CDC recommended a tiered schedule. On the tiered schedule, at-risk and target groups--the elderly, those with chronic medical conditions, and health care workers--got their shots in October, while otherwise healthy people simply looking to preemptively fend off the flu were told to wait until later in the season.
The availability of the flu vaccine led CDC officials to suspend the tiered schedule for this year, which will make life easier for physicians by giving them maximal flexibility in their flu vaccination plans.
Following a request from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the CDC--along with the Food and Drug Administration and flu vaccine manufacturers--now reviews the vaccine supply before flu season and advises physicians of any ...
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