(10/20/09) 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.
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