Swine flue vaccine

The H1N1 otherwise known as the swine flu vaccine is scheduled to arrive in states and cities across the country on Tuesday and should be ready for the public by Thursday if everything goes according to plan.

Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the first U.S. H1N1 vaccine to be delivered will be 600,000 doses of a nasal spray made by MedImmune, a division of AstraZeneca.

“This is a bit earlier than we were planning to get started,” Schuchat said in a telephone briefing.

The first vaccine on the market will be limited to only high risk patients such as the elderly and people with chronic conditions and will be available in spray form.

Since the H1N1 flu has quickly moved across the country, with numbers of infected well into the thousands, it’s important to get this vaccine to everyone that needs it. There have been deaths associated withe the virus but most of those people had other issues that helped the virus take over so there’s no need for panic as of yet.

According to the CDC the virus is most prominent in the southern states but is making its way north at a rapid rate and as of now there is no state that doesn’t have a confirmed case of H1N1.

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