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2 Vaccine Supply
Pages 7-14

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... More detailed information about how these issues impacted vaccine distribution and administration as well as communications is included in each of the respective main sections below. Figure 2-1 shows estimates of the number of 2009 H1N1 cases and vaccine doses distributed, from the beginning of the vaccination campaign in October 2009.
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From page 8...
... Supply and Demand Over the summer and through September, expectations for the vaccination campaign grew, fueled partly by wide media coverage and disease incidence. In July 2009, the CDC's ACIP recommended that initial vaccination efforts focus on five target groups, as mentioned above and discussed in greater detail below (CDC/ACIP, 2009)
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From page 9...
... Some public health representatives noted that influenza vaccine demand generally drops at this time of year, even in years in which seasonal influenza activity peaks in January. They said that this likely added to the challenges that were specific to 2009 H1N1.
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From page 10...
... This subset of target groups covered approximately 42 million people in the United States. At the workshops, however, state and local public health participants said that during the summer planning phase of the vaccination campaign, the possibility of limited vaccine supply was not emphasized in the communications they received from the federal authorities.
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From page 11...
... The lack of accurate projections about future supply presented challenges in developing equitable distribution plans, planning clinics, and developing messaging for healthcare providers and the public. Several participants suggested that federal authorities should develop stronger and more formal partnerships with vaccine producers to ensure they have the most up-to-date information on production and inventory to generate more accurate supply projections.
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From page 12...
... "We have to redouble the effort to once again give us the science that could put out vaccine quicker, in order to impact a pandemic that's much bigger," said Mark Horton, director of the California Department of Public Health. The need to increase the capacity and speed of vaccine production was discussed in a recent review of the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS's)
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From page 13...
... • Plan for a range of vaccine supply scenarios when supply is uncertain.
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