Rationing Influenza Vaccine
- 2 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 351 (23) , 2365-2366
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp048328
Abstract
It was two days after the presidential election and only a week after the Red Sox won the World Series, but all anyone could talk about at my Boston hospital was influenza shots. I saw 12 outpatients and 1 inpatient that Thursday morning, and all but one asked whether they could get the influenza vaccine.I told them all no. Our hospital, which logged more than 200,000 outpatient visits for primary care last year, had only 2000 doses for primary care patients, and there was no way we could come close to covering all our patients who were part of . . .Keywords
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