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The CDC's H1N1 Vaccine Guidelines

By: Mitch Carr
Updated: November 3, 2009
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Swine Flu vaccines arrived and Lubbock and were gone in hours.  Today we took a look at the most at risk populations that received the vaccine first.

Those vaccines were distributed based on guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control.

The CDC lists five groups of Americans as priority groups for receiving the vaccine.

Those five groups are pregnant women professional caregivers like doctors and nurses, anyone taking care of an infant that is less than 6 months old anyone between the ages of 6 months and 24 years and people between 25 and 64 that suffer from chronic illnesses like diabetes or a weakened immune system.

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