"The federal government's unprecedented campaign to protect the nation against the swine flu pandemic has gotten off to a sputtering start, frustrating parents, pregnant women and others anxious to get immunized against the new virus.
With only a fraction of the tens of millions of doses of vaccine that authorities predicted would be available arriving in states, cities and towns, public health officials who spent months planning for a massive immunization program are instead scrambling to parcel out their limited supply of nasal sprays and shots.
As the number of children, teens and young adults who are falling ill, being hospitalized and in rare cases dying rises, some health departments and doctors are being flooded with calls from worried, sometimes angry patients."
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