Hawaii expected to get full complement of H1N1 vaccine
The federal government has so far allocated 146,500 doses of H1N1 vaccine for Hawaii, and local health officials said the state will eventually get enough doses to vaccinate everyone who wants one. With a population of 1.3 million, the number of doses allocated so far would reach only about 11 percent of the population, and that’s only giving them one dose. The recommendation to be fully immunized is to get a second dose four weeks after the first. The vaccines aren’t all here but are ordered, banked, received or en route and the state expects to get more, said Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the state Department of Health. Each week the CDC makes new allotments, and so far Hawaii has requested its maximum allotments, Fukino said. “We are anticipating that as vaccines become more and more available that anyone who wants a vaccination can get one,” Fukino said at a news conference Thursday.
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