New York City Parents Rushing to Find Flu Vaccines Coming Up Empty Handed

Flu shots are a hot commodity in New York City.  Kristian Sekulic/Getty Images

Some area pharmacies and urgent care facilities were already out of flu shots Sunday, a day after Gov. Cuomo declared this influenza season a statewide public health emergency

nydailynews.com - by Erin Durkin and Edgar Sandoval - January 13, 2013

A rush on flu shots sparked by Gov. Cuomo’s health emergency declaration has left some city pharmacies and urgent care facilities empty handed.

“We ran out,” said Dr. Mark Melrose, an emergency physician and owner of Urgent Care Manhattan on Amsterdam Ave. on the upper West Side.

Melrose said his supply went dry Saturday after doling out 10 times the normal number of flu shots to victims of the coughing—sneezing-head-feverish epidemic sweeping the nation.

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