Flu vaccine shortage puts pressure on local parents

[Hannah Bell]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Local parents are getting kids vaccinated for H1N1 as fast as they can.

To protect her son Gregory and daughter Micaela from the seasonal flu, as well as the H1N1 virus, mom Stacy Cesta brought them to the final day of the Saratoga County Health Department's flu clinic.

She was lucky to get in.

Cesta tells NEWS10, "We were signed up for other Saratoga County clinics and they were cancelled. So, we came here. We had to make sure they get the vaccines."

And she's not alone.

On Monday night, 180 people came to the health department for the FluMist version of the H1N1 vaccine, as well as seasonal flu shots.

http://www.wten.com/global/story.asp?S=11387969



Thank God Wall Street got plenty, though!

[lefty369]

1. Do you think there is really a shortage? I have the feeling

someone is playing with us. To create a panic for the vacine?

[uppityperson]

2. Yes, there is a shortage.

[endless october]

4. shortage is real.

less doses per egg. they didn't predict the egg method would only produce a fraction of the yield that they were used to.

[Kievan Rus]

3. Who cares as long as the banksters got it!