The health authority regrets the vaccine shortage, but says patients will just have to wait.

Even during periods of vaccine shortages, workers who treat patients should be immunized, he said, to keep them healthy and able to care for others.

It said, "Current vaccine shortages do not appear to be liability related."

We have an immediate and serious health challenge: protecting people against influenza during a major vaccine shortage.

As a result of the vaccine shortage, the Pentagon is seeking a second drug company to make it.

That's good, because there's been a well-publicized vaccine shortage until recently.

Though the findings may sound like a solution to the current vaccine shortage, researchers said they would actually be of limited use.

Just as people had begun to appreciate the value of flu shots, the worst vaccine shortage yet struck.

Government health officials said in interviews that they would propose other ways to avert vaccine shortages to Congress within weeks.

In their eyes, the vaccine shortage will almost certainly not be what history remembers about influenza from this year and next.