The corporations behind CVS and Walgreens stores are experiencing “spot shortages of seasonal flu vaccines” because of demand, according to a report by Bloomberg. There are shortages in the South and the Southeast, including CVS MinuteClinics in Austin, Texas, which ran out of seasonal-flu vaccine in the past week before restocking. James. Cohn, a Walgreen spokesman, says demand has soared because of public awareness of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. Walgreens administered twice as many doses last month as in the entire 2008 flu season, he told Bloomberg, while CVS clinics have vaccinated a “significantly higher number of people” than last year, said Michael DeAngelis, a company spokesman. To read the full article, click here.
CVS, Walgreens have flu-vaccine shortages
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