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Senators say US HHS has not learned from H1N1 mistakes
“The glaring discrepancy between the demand for and supply of H1N1 vaccine in our country has resulted in pregnant women standing in line for hours, only to find no vaccine at the end,” they wrote to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The US government has been struggling to provide vaccines against the pandemic H1N1 virus, which has infected an estimated 22 million Americans and killed at least 3,900.
President Barack Obama’s administration built on years of preparation for a pandemic, but now risks losing the confidence of a public already suspicious of public health campaigns.
Companies have run into repeated obstacles in making the vaccine, which is manufactured using 50-year-old technology based on eggs.
“This shortage of vaccine has left many parents of children in high-risk groups scrambling, often in frustration, to find the vaccine the government has told them that they need,” Collins and Lieberman wrote.
“However, your response does not acknowledge any missteps by the government, a sure sign that lessons have not been learned to ensure that this situation does not happen again.”
Collins and Lieberman will hold a hearing on Tuesday of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to discuss the matter.
They expressed concern about the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to designate 159 million people as having priority for vaccine, and HHS projections about how much vaccine would be available and when. The CDC’s advisers on vaccination policy voted in July to create five broad priority groups -- pregnant women, healthcare workers, people with asthma, diabetes or other conditions that put them at high risk of flu complications, caregivers of infants too young to be vaccinated, and children.
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