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"I&amp;#039;ve been following the H1N1 situation closely not just because I&amp;#039;m a health journalist but also because I&amp;#039;m a mom. I&amp;#039;m all for getting the H1N1 vaccine as well as the seasonal flu vaccine, but I prefer to give my three-and-a-half-year-old son the killed version. This has put me in somewhat of a quandary because A. My pediatrician only has the intranasal live virus form of the H1N1 vaccine and B. He ran out of the seasonal flu shot the day before my son was scheduled to get it last month. I&amp;#039;m thinking I could just take him to a drugstore clinic and get either vaccine or even try to take him to another pediatrician. I&amp;#039;ve e-mailed my doctor to ask what he thinks (and if he has any idea if he&amp;#039;s going to get the killed virus version of H1N1 or when he&amp;#039;ll get more seasonal flu shots). In the meantime, I&amp;#039;ve been paying close attention to what&amp;#039;s being reported in the news and on the internet for and against the H1N1 vaccine: On one hand, there are the parents who&amp;#039;ve driven long distances and waited in line for hours to get it for their kids. On the other, there are those who refuse to get it, saying it&amp;#039;s too new and their kids are healthy anyway. All of the doctors I&amp;#039;ve spoken to unanimously recommend getting the vaccine, as they should. From a public health perspective it&amp;#039;s absolutely the right thing to do. But I&amp;#039;m wondering, if the vaccines are so difficult to get, should I be killing myself to get it for my son? Or just patiently wait until I can comfortably get it from my pediatrician? I read an interesting story in the NYTimes today by Perri Klass, MD about how experts haven&amp;#039;t seen this dichotomy over a vaccine before, probably because most parents today weren&amp;#039;t around to see an epidemic like small pox or polio. So I want to know: What&amp;#039;s your take? -Amy Brightfield, Health Director "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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