Govt says swine flu vaccine catching up to demand

Director of the Department of Public Health Public Health and Health Officer for Los Angeles County, Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding, receives an H1N1 vaccination during the launch of the first Public Health H1N1 vaccine clinics in Los Angeles County on October 23, 2009 in the Los Angeles area community of Encino, California. The clinics will provide free vaccine against H1N1, also known as swine flu, to priority groups and people who do not have health insurance or a regular source of health care. (David McNew, Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior adviser to President Barack Obama says the government will catch up to the demand for swine flu vaccine within a week.

Obama adviser David Axelrod says the manufacturers of the vaccine were wrong when they advised the administration earlier this year that they would have 40 million doses ready near the end of October. Instead, only 28 million doses of vaccine were available.

Axelrod says 10 million more doses are expected to be available this week. He predicted that the U.S. will have all the vaccine it needs "in very short order."

The swine flu vaccination program began Oct. 5. The delivery of the vaccine has frustrated people worried about the new H1N1 virus.

Axelrod appeared Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation.

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