Bob is 8 and Edgar is 3.5. In the US, the priority groups are a little different. The first is pregnant women, followed by household contacts of infants under 6 months, then healthcare and emergency medical workers, then 6 months to 24 year olds, and then 25-64 year olds with health conditions associated with higher risk of complications from flu. So the kids are in group four, and we're sort of in group five. But when the first H1N1 clinics by the County were done, they weren't checking, so my 74 year old aunt got it, and my cousin's wife, who isn't in any of the groups. My cousin got it, but he has a heart condition, so he's in the last group, and their son got it, and he's four, so he's in group four.
The waitlist at my girls' peds office is over 700 people, or at least it was three weeks ago. I imagine it's longer now, since they haven't gotten any vax in and three weeks have passed.
Supposedly, the reason it's so hard to come by is that the manufacturers are having a hard time growing the virus in sufficient quantities. They grow flu virus in chicken eggs, but this one doesn't grow well in chicken eggs.
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Date: 2009-11-13 06:36 pm (UTC)The waitlist at my girls' peds office is over 700 people, or at least it was three weeks ago. I imagine it's longer now, since they haven't gotten any vax in and three weeks have passed.
Supposedly, the reason it's so hard to come by is that the manufacturers are having a hard time growing the virus in sufficient quantities. They grow flu virus in chicken eggs, but this one doesn't grow well in chicken eggs.