CTFLUWATCH: Current Vaccine Priority Populations

H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)

Current Vaccine Priority Populations

Effective Wednesday, December 16, 2009

 

The H1N1 vaccine can now be administered to anyone who wishes to receive it. Vaccine is no longer restricted to the previously outlined priority groups.

 

Effective immediately, the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine can be administered to anyone who wishes to receive it.

  • This is possible because of the efforts of health care providers and local health departments / districts over the past two and a half months to vaccinate the priority groups, an increased and consistent supply of vaccine in recent weeks, and signs of decreased demand by priority groups.
  • Health care providers should continue their efforts to vaccinate members of the priority groups, but providers should not pass up an opportunity to vaccinate anyone who wishes to receive it if vaccine is available.
  • All children 9 years of age and younger need two doses of H1N1 vaccine for protection.
  • Continuing vaccination efforts may provide protection in the event of another wave of H1N1 disease in the coming months.
 
We ask that you consider using LAIV for healthy persons aged 2 through 49 years.

 

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Press Release: Governor Rell: H1N1 Vaccine Now Available for All of Connecticut (12/16/09)

Once the demand for vaccine for the target groups has been met at the local level, CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that programs and providers begin vaccinating everyone from the ages of 25 through 64 years. Current studies indicate that the risk for infection among persons 65 and older is less than the risk for younger age groups. However, once vaccine demand among younger age groups has been met, ACIP recommends that programs and providers should offer vaccination to people 65 or older.

To view the entire statement from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), please go to http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr58e0821a1.htm.

For updated information on the national supply of H1N1 vaccine, please go to http://www.flu.gov/individualfamily/vaccination/supply.html.