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US: Healthcare workers to get first pandemic vaccinations

Posted on July 23, 2008

Via Reuters: US vaccination plan puts health care workers first Markets US Reuters href= http://uk.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idUKN2342343620080723?rpc=401& US vaccination plan puts health care workers first. Excerpt:Essential health care workers would be immunized first if a flu pandemic broke out in the United States, the government said on Wednesday.The Department of Health and Human Services released long-awaited details on who would get vaccinated and when if a serious global influenza epidemic emerged.The plan put a million health care workers, such as emergency room staf...

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