Biggest swine flu regret for U.S.: vaccine chaos
Fri, Mar 5 2010
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – First, people were clamoring for H1N1 vaccines, but there were not enough to go around. By the time vaccines were available in any quantity, most of the public had lost interest.
And no one knew just how unpredictable the production of vaccines would turn out to be, top U.S. public health leaders agreed on Friday.
Getting the U.S. public to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated was definitely one of the biggest challenges to managing the pandemic of H1N1 swine flu, speaker after speaker agreed at a conference on influenza regrets.
