First the h1n1 vaccine, now the seasonal flu vaccine; people want it but they can't find it.

Jennifer Palmer has been trying to find the seasonal flu vaccine for days.
She wants to immunize her 5-year-old daughter.
Her doctors office is out of the vaccine so she tried the Linn County Public Health Department.

It's just frustrated that I can't get her the vaccination when theres a vaccination out there, says Palmer.

It's out there but not for people like Palmer.
She has health insurance and because of that, she can't get the vaccine from the department.
The department has the vaccine through the federal program called Vaccines for Kids.
The program only gives vaccines to kids who fit these criteria:

-On Title 19 or Medicaid
-No insurance
-American Indian or Alaskan native
-Have insurance but does not cover the vaccine

The Palmers have insurance so that means they have to wait for their doctors office to get a shipment of the vaccine.

There has also been a lot of waiting for the H1N1 vaccine.
The Linn County Health Department says both vaccines are coming in slowly,
The department has 11,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine but it only goes to the priority groups.

Of the 11,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine, the health department says that only helps 5 to 6 percent of the targeted priority groups. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control says it has about 10 million fewer H1N1 vaccine doses than it was expecting this month.
Tough Time Finding Vaccines