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Obama?s Daughters Get the H1N1 Vaccine
October 27, 2009 3:25 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:
The White House announced today that the president?s daughters received the H1N1 vaccine after it became available to Washington, D.C. schoolchildren.
The vaccine was administered last week to Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, by a White House physician, who applied for and received the vaccine from the D.C. Department of Health, ?using the same process as every other vaccination site in the District,? according to the first lady?s Press Secretary Katie McCormick-Lelyveld.
The president and first lady have not yet received the vaccination. The White House said they will wait until the needs of priority target groups -- young people under 24, pregnant women, and people with underlying conditions -- receive theirs first.
?I suspect that I may come fairly far down the line,? The president told CNN last month. ?We want to get vaccinated. We think it's the right thing to do. We will stand in line like everybody else. And when folks say it's our turn, that's when we'll get it.
On Friday President Obama signed a proclamation declaring H1N1 a national emergency.
All four members of the first family received the seasonal flu shot last week.
-- Sunlen Miller