Skip Navigation

Top Stories podcast:
Subscribe in
or
paste feed address into other podcast application
Podcast how-to.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009

Story Begins

NCPR News

Frustration builds over short supply of swine flu vaccine

Limited access to swine flu vaccine is causing frustration among those who would like to be immunized. That's according to Patty Hunt director of the Washington County public health department. Like her counterparts across northern New York, Hunt received only a few hundred doses of the H1N1 vaccine. These were made available to the department's medical personnel. Last month, New York health commissioner Dr. Richard Daines told doctors and nurses on the state payroll to get a flu shot or they'd be fired. Last week, a judge issued a restraining order blocking the emergency regulation. Hunt tells Jonathan Brown that health-care workers in her office are not refusing immunizations.
This text will be replaced

Download audio (dial-up). Right-click to save target as. Download audio | permanent archive link or make comment Post/Read Comments |

Story Ends



Adirondack News Fund Founding Supporters: Paul Smith's College, The College of the Adirondacks · Wildlife Conservation Society · Adirondack Medical Center Foundation · Adirondack Museum · Niagara Mohawk Foundation · Schumann Foundation · John A. Sellon Charitable Trust · several anonymous individual donors