[torstars]

Yesterday, 2,921 people received flu shots at an Oakland clinic that the Health Department set up to manage the huge demand. Cole said only 1,000 doses will be given today at the clinic, 3333 Forbes Ave., Oakland, and he expects the clinic to run out.

[vetvetdoug]

I have had time to think about the current vaccines' shortcomings toward the Fujian strain. If one were to be vaccinated against the Panama strain and within a couple of weeks of the vaccination contract the Fujian strain, the severity of the Fujian influenza could be more severe than normal. Immunity would be tied up making antibody toward the Panama strain and would be slow and inefficient to make immunity toward the Fujian strain. This scenario could be right if: there is no cross immunity from the Panama strain to the Fujian strain or the body's inability to recognize an alternate strain until disease is full blown. Are these assumptions plausible?