Warning that the flu season probably hasn’t peaked yet, federal health officials said Thursday they would not lift all restrictions on flu vaccines, but they endorsed moves by state and local officials to expand the pool of people eligible for a shot.The officials also said they were making moves to increase the vaccine supply. They will do this by first selling back 3.1 million doses of flu vaccine currently in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stockpile to Sanofi Pasteur (formerly Aventis Pasteur) so the company can, in turn, sell the vaccine to public and private providers. In addition, about 1.3 million doses that had been reserved for the Vaccine in Children program will be made available for other users.
