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Catt03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 06:43 PM
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Exhausted, some collapsing, one dying:desperate for vaccine
Edited on Sat Oct-16-04 07:21 PM by Catt03
Exhausted, some collapsing, one dying - thousands line up in desperate bid for flu vaccine


SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va., Oct. 16 — Seventy-year-old Homer Fink spent eight hours sitting next to a supermarket Halloween display to get a flu shot that he wasn't able to get at five other places.

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The scene was repeated across the country as the nation's suddenly limited supply of flu vaccine was drained. People lined up at pharmacies and supermarkets in the middle of the night: old folks with oxygen tanks, sleeping children bundled up in strollers, people in wheelchairs.


Associated Press writers Mitch Stacy in Tampa, Fla., and Tom Verdin in Clovis, Calif., contributed to this report


http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap10-16-103732.asp?t=apnew&vts=101620041608


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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 06:51 PM
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1. Link doesn't work
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Catt03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 07:02 PM
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2. I checked it
works for me
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 07:04 PM
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3. Well it doesn't for me
so I can't read the article
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Catt03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 07:21 PM
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5. try this
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 07:49 PM
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6. Thank you muchly
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 07:12 PM
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4. It worked for me and this is unfrickinbelievable
WTF? This admin is SO INEPT that they can't even shop flu vaccine appropriately for the second year in a God damned row?

UNREAL!
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