What can local health departments do to help with influenza vaccine supply shortages or maldistribution?
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has stated that local health departments will assess the availability of vaccine in their communities and reach out to high priority populations, educating their communities about groups recommended to receive highest priority for vaccination. Local health departments will often work with health care providers to accomplish two objectives: 1) to encourage targeting of vaccine to high priority populations; and 2) to facilitate sharing of vaccine, in order to make the best possible use of available vaccine supplies. For more information, please see http://www.naccho.org. Posted November 10, 2005 How much vaccine will be available for the 2005-06 influenza season? The total influenza vaccine supply for the country based on information provided to CDC by manufacturers is expected to be over 80 million doses. This greatly exceeds last year’s supply of 61 million doses, and would be one of the highest amounts ever availabl
