Hundreds of thousands of doses of pediatric swine flu vaccine are being recalled, some of which was sent to Connecticut.
The problem is the shots aren't strong enough. Parents say the flub is unacceptable.
"They should never release it until they’re sure… One minute they say its good get the next thing, it’s no good," says a frustrated Carmen Rosario.
The recall affects nearly 800,000 doses of the children's vaccine nationwide and 8,000 alone in Connecticut.
Turns out the rush to get the shots to patients may have backfired. The Centers for Disease Control tested the orders of the H1N1 vaccine but shipped them out so quickly it may have failed to notice the vaccine loses its strength after a few months of being administered.
“I don’t know what to think it makes people not trust them so they don’t know whether to get it or not to get it,” says Rosario, understandably angry whose grandson just got his shot.
Like her, others are full of questions about what this recall means to them, “I would think that my child is protected but their not. Now what? Do you want to wait to have the vaccine to come another batch of vaccine? And have them vaccinated again?” asks Jeannie Gamble of New Haven.
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Here are some details: Connecticut’s Department of Public Health says 62 providers around the state gave the weak shots between November 11 and 30. A company called Sanofi Pasteur made all the pre-filled syringes.
The good news is the CDC says children given the weak shots actually do not need to get revaccinated.
The vaccines being recalled were intended for children between 6 months and 3 years old. Doctors most of the weaker doses have been given out.
