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{"BBF41C78-5056-A066-60D1-711BC4887A56":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"BBF41C78-5056-A066-60D1-711BC4887A56","title":"Sen. Schumer Urges FDA to Respond to Shingle Shot Shortage","summary":"Farmingdale, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"January 7, 2019","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/sen-schumer-urges-fda-to-respond-to-shingle-shot-shortage","city":"Farmingdale","county":"Nassau","lat":40.7337244,"lng":-73.44621949999998,"description":"On January 7, 2019, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, in the midst of a needless government shutdown that has forced the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to shutdown, with the exception of essential staff, revealed today that Long Island is experiencing an alarming shortage of the Shingles vaccine. If left unsolved, this could result in many people getting Shingles or spreading the chickenpox virus to others this winter.\r\n“To think that in the midst of a shingle shot vaccine shortage across Long Island, that the FDA is shutdown, is a worrisome thought and a problem that must be addressed,” said U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. “The shingle shot shortage across the Island is a two-pronged worry because not only does a shortage mean more people might suffer the painful and harmful shingles virus itself, but it means that young people, particularly babies and children, even those with compromised immune systems who have never had chickenpox themselves, are at a greater risk to communicate the bug. That’s why I am urging the FDA to go above and beyond, to do whatever it can, amidst this needless shutdown and pull out all the stops to step in and help remedy this shortage before it becomes a full-on crisis. And it is why I am, once again, urging the President to see the light here and stop holding agencies that have nothing to do with the debate at hand hostage.”"}}

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