Pentagon workers get H1N1 vaccine

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Pentagon workers get H1N1 vaccine
By Kevin Baron, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, November 11, 2009

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Pentagon is administering 25,000 doses of swine flu to military personnel, civilian employees and defense contractors despite a Defense Department study that found most Pentagon employees are at low risk for infection.

With a national shortage of the vaccine, the U.S. has established a priority list for the most vulnerable, including pregnant women and children younger than 5.

“I can tell you, as you all probably know, that we, like a lot of institutions right now, have a very limited supply of vaccine,” Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, said last week.

But since Thursday, anyone with a military or Defense Department ID received the vaccine, including dependents, secretaries, paper-pushers, and others far from the front lines.

In the Defense Department, priority begins with military servicemembers first, with thousands deployed in war zones still awaiting their doses, then deployed health care workers.


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