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Vaccinations for the First Family
We've been asked about whether the President, Mrs. Obama, and Sasha and Malia have received their H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines. All four members of the Obama family have received their seasonal flu vaccine.  Malia and Sasha were both vaccinated for H1N1 last week, after the vaccine ...
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Obama Girls Get Swine Flu Shots
The Caucus — The Obama daughters, Malia and Sasha, have gotten their swine flu shots. The White House has been flooded with questions about whether the First Family has been vaccinated against H1N1, the swine flu virus. The administration posted the answer on its Web site Tuesday: President Obama and his wife Michelle willl “wait until the needs of the priority groups” – including young people under age 24, pregnant women and people with underlying illnesses – have been vaccinated. But Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, fall within the priority groups, and received their injections last week from ...

First Daughters receive swine flu vaccination
News — ... "Malia and Sasha were both vaccinated for H1N1 last week, after the vaccine became available to Washington, DC schoolchildren," the First Lady's press secretary Catherine McCormick-Lelyveld announced in a blog post today. ...

First Daughters Get H1N1 Vaccine
The Political Carnival — ... First daughters Malia and Sasha Obama were vaccinated last week against the H1N1 flu virus, the White House announced late Tuesday in a post on the official White House blog. ...

Remainders: H1N1
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama gets away with stuff Bush wouldn't have. And boosts the RGA. The first daughters get their H1N1 shots. That report on massive GOP spending on web hosting is questioned. Jones boosts J Street. And rejects the Goldstone Report. The Tablet profiles its pollster. Blumenthal defends conservative groups' polling in NY-23. A local editor defends Dede. Bloomberg annoys New Yorkers 75 different ways. Ezra Klein doesn't take ...

Obama Daughters Received Swine Flu Shots
TPMDC — ... First Lady Michelle Obama's spokeswoman Katie McCormick-Lelyveld blogged at WhiteHouse.gov a rare bit of news about Obama daughters Malia and Sasha. ...

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