Secretary of Health Mary Selecky said that, Pregnant women were hit especially hard by H1N1 infections and younger children were at high risk, so we wanted to give them vaccine options. Suspending the limits made the vaccine more widely available to vulnerable people at a time when supplies were low and production was slow, but that ™s no longer the case. There ™s plenty of vaccine for everyone, and vaccination is the best protection against H1N1.

The vaccination is being touted as the best protection against both swine flu and the seasonal flu. Children under ten need two shots and children over ten need just one dose. The effects of the pandemic which hit the world last year are now being studied in terms of public health impact now.

We conclude that the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic virus had a substantial health burden in the US over the first few months of circulation in terms of years of life lost, justifying the effort to protect the population with vaccination programs," says a report, published by PLoS Currents: Influenza.