Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Swine Flu vaccine

They have found a vaccine for the swine flu or the H1N1 virus that has swept across the United States and other regions as well. They have found a vaccine but they dont think that they will be able to immunize every American in time for the flu season. So they have decided to only immunize a portion of the population about 150 million americans in all. The first people recieve the vaccine are health care workers, emergency medical personel, pregnant women, peoplecaring for infants under 6 months, children and young adults from 6 months to 25 years and adults 25 years to 64 that have severe meical conitions like asthma, diabetes and heart disease. But the experts beleive that they might have a shortage of immunizations and they might only be able to give the vaccine to 40 million. If this should happen the priority would be pregnant women, health and emergency workers and people caring for infints would recieve the vaccine.

1 comment:

  1. This didn't come from Wikipedia, did it? Ha.

    How might you frame this so that you're folding in an interest in media studies?

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