From a local paper -
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090821/NEWS01/308210033/
H1N1 flu vaccine may take months
AVONDALE – Swine flu vaccine may not be widely available until Thanksgiving, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday.
In the meantime, Sebelius told students and parents at Rockdale Academy, it’s important to focus on other measures to prevent the spread of the new flu virus, including frequent hand washing and staying home from school or work if symptoms appear.
Sebelius, Gov. Ted Strickland and U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-West Price Hill, talked up preparations against H1N1, or swine, flu to a group of about 20 Rockdale students and parents.
Sebelius, a Cincinnati native, took questions from some students at the event.
It’s too soon to tell how many Americans will get the flu, she told one youngster, but experts estimate that as many as 1 million have already had it.
“It could be we see a couple of million people get it,” she said. “It could be there are a lot more.”
Federal health officials have already said vaccine production will be delayed.
“That means it could be between now and Thanksgiving before we have vaccine,” Sebelius said.
Officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a telephone press briefing Friday that 45 million to 52 million swine flu vaccine doses are expected by mid-October, when vaccination is set to begin, and 195 million by the end of the year.
When the vaccine is available, Sebelius said, “there will be plenty for everyone who wants to be protected.”
Vaccination will be “strictly voluntary,” she said, adding students who don’t get vaccinated will be allowed to attend school,
just as health-care workers who don’t get vaccinated can still go to work. [
This isn't true -- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/health/policy/19swine.html The State Health Department is requiring tens of thousands of health care workers across the state to be vaccinated for flu, amid fears that swine flu will return in the fall. The new regulation, which requires vaccination against seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus, would affect workers and volunteers who come into direct contact with patients, including nurses, doctors and aides, and even nonmedical staff members like food service workers if they enter a patient’s room, a Health Department spokeswoman, Diane Mathis, said.-New York State]
Frequent hand washing will help prevent the spread of the virus, Sebelius said, and that washing hands long enough to sing singing “Happy Birthday” while washing ensures hands get good and clean. “It sounds kind of goofy, but it really does work,” she said.
Sneezing into the elbow, instead of covering the mouth and nose with the hands, also helps contain the virus, she said.
And, she suggested, doing the “flu bump” instead of shaking hands when greeting people could cut down on flu.
She and Driehaus even demonstrated bumping fists and bumping elbows in greeting.
H1N1 is still spreading widely across the United States, CDC officials said Friday, with 75 percent of serious cases and 60 percent of deaths among people under the age of 49.
Strickland told students that accurate information is a good weapon against H1N1.
“We don’t want you to be anxious or worried or fearful. We want you to have knowledge and information,” he said.
) be getting the vaccine?
I have asthma and so we just kept an eye on it. DS and DD both took Tamiflu and that seemed to improve their symptoms within a day. I didn't take Tamiflu and I had it several days longer than the kids. 
