The Associated Press August 17, 2009, 9:30PM ET
WASHINGTON
The U.S. won't have nearly as much swine flu vaccine ready by mid-October as long predicted -- 45 million doses instead of the anticipated 120 million.
Health and Human Services spokesman Bill Hall said Monday more will arrive rapidly after that. About 20 million more doses will be shipped every week until the governments gets its full order, 195 million doses in all.
But the now-anticipated delay, which is blamed on manufacturing issues, will extend by a month efforts to get people at highest risk vaccinated against the new flu strain.
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