The New York Times

“…across the country, state and local health hot lines are jammed and message boards are lighting up with one question: When can I get my vaccination?

“As a small fraction — some 2.4 million doses — of the nasal spray version of the new swine flu vaccine began arriving last week at local health departments, plans for limited distribution were being formulated on the fly or dusted off from earlier in the decade, when fears of an avian flu pandemic sparked a rush of emergency preparedness.”

Source: New York Times, October 10, 2009