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流感疫苗出现短暂性缺货，不要急，马上补齐！
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area leaders and health care professionals have been urging people to get their flu shots for weeks.
旧金山——几个星期以来，海湾地区的领导和卫生保健专家一直在敦促人们接种流感疫苗。
The message appears to be working, perhaps a little too well.
这条信息似乎起了作用，也许有点太好了。
The pharmacy inside Target in Alameda says it ran out of the flu vaccine for people 64 years of age and younger for a few days last week.
阿拉米达的塔吉特药店表示，上周有几天，针对64岁及以下人群的流感疫苗已经用完。
It now is fully stocked.
现在已经备齐了。
And recently this CVS pharmacy in Orinda was out of a high dose vaccine for those 65 and up. It too has been able to replenish its supply.
最近奥林达CVS药店针对65岁以上人群的高剂量疫苗已经卖完了。它也能够补充其供应。
UC Berkeley Professor of Public Health John Swartzberg says he couldn't get the type of high dose flu shot he wanted. He settled for a different dose of flu vaccine from his doctor in Berkeley.
加州大学伯克利分校的公共卫生教授John Swartzberg说，他找不到他想要的高剂量流感疫苗。他接受了伯克利医生给他的另一剂流感疫苗。
"The doctor's office had a difficult time finding it. My wife had to call several pharmacies before she could find the one that was optimal for her," Swartzberg said.
医生的办公室费了好大劲才找到它。我妻子给好几家药店打了电话，才找到最适合她的那一家。
But health professionals and pharmacies say that while some places may run out of flu shots temporarily. There is not a shortage of flu vaccine.
但是卫生专业人员和药房说，虽然一些地方可能会暂时用完流感疫苗。流感疫苗并不短缺。
They say any disruptions in the supply chain are in the distribution process. But places shouldn't be out of stock for more than a day or two.
他们说，供应链的任何中断都是在配送过程中发生的。但是缺货时间不应该超过一两天。
"Everybody is asking for the vaccines. How they are being allocated is perhaps not as smoothly done as it should be," Swartzberg says.
“每个人都想要疫苗。它们的分配可能没有像应该的那样顺利。
"We should not be concerned," says Dr. Jeffrey Silvers, an infectious disease specialist with Sutter Health. "There were some early delays in some deliveries. And two there is probably an increase in demand for vaccines this year because of COVID."
“我们不应该担心，”萨特健康中心的传染病专家杰弗里·西尔弗斯博士说。“在一些交付中出现了一些早期延迟。第二，由于COVID，今年对疫苗的需求可能会增加。”
CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., says it has ordered 18 million flu vaccines. That is twice what it ordered in 2019.
美国最大的连锁药店CVS称已订购了1800万支流感疫苗。这是其2019年订单的两倍。
And the pharmacy says it has already given out 9 million flu shots so far this year. That's as many as it administered all of last year.
药房表示，今年到目前为止已经发放了900万针流感疫苗。这相当于去年全年的人数。
"Sometimes a store runs out at any given time. So we refer those patients to a nearby location or we will get the vaccine at that location as soon as possible," says Eleanor Wong, the CVS district manager of San Francisco and Marin County.
“有时候商店在任何时候都卖光了。所以我们会把这些病人转到附近的地方，或者我们会尽快在那个地方接种疫苗。”
But temporary outages or not, the message remains the same: People should get their flu shots, even if they have to call around to find a place that has the vaccine.
但无论是否出现临时停电，信息都是一样的:人们应该接种流感疫苗，即使他们不得不四处打电话寻找有疫苗的地方。
"The last thing we want is for people to get COVID and the flu at the same time. And they are hard to differentiate. And if you get them both together it could be a devastating result," says Silvers.
“我们最不希望的事情就是人们同时感染病毒和流感。它们很难区分。如果你把两者结合在一起，可能会是一个毁灭性的结果，”西尔弗斯说。
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