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Even though we actually ended up seeing some vaccine a month sooner than most experts would have predicted back in April, frustrations over the limited availability of vaccine are beginning to show.
The problem, of course, was over promising last summer; relying on overly optimistic projections from the vaccine producers.
Instead of having 120 million doses by mid-October as projected in July, we saw fewer than 20 million doses of vaccine actually shipped to the states by the end of October.
Today CNN released a poll showing some erosion in public confidence in the government’s ability to `prevent an epidemic’.
A nonsensical question, I suppose, considering that we see an influenza `epidemic’ nearly every year, and are clearly seeing one now.
But I don’t write the polls . . . I just report on them.
Poll: Americans losing confidence in H1N1 battle
November 10, 2009 8:41 a.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- 51 percent confident in government's ability to prevent H1N1 epidemic
- Number of Americans who are confident is down 8 percentage points from August
- Mothers most likely to think that there will not be enough vaccine to go around
- 4 of 10 people in poll say the disapprove of how President Obama is handling H1N1
Washington (CNN) -- Americans are starting to lose confidence in the government's ability to prevent a nationwide epidemic of the H1N1 flu, according to a new national poll.
But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Tuesday morning, indicates a small majority continue to say that the government and private industry eventually will produce enough of the vaccine for the virus, also known as swine flu, to inoculate everyone who wants it.
According to the poll, 51 percent of those questioned are confident in the government's ability to prevent an H1N1 epidemic, with 49 percent not confident. The number of Americans who are confident is down 8 percentage points from August, while the number of those not confident is up 9 percentage points.
