Public health authorities have been lecturing people for months to get the swine flu vaccine, but to those who actually listened: Good luck finding it.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for months has said that the vaccine would be widely available – with about 50 million doses – by mid-October. But as the end of the month approaches, fewer than 13 million doses have been delivered to states.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, where swine flu is circulating, pockets of vaccine are available – mostly through Kaiser Permanente, which is the region’s largest health care provider. But supply is very limited and only people at the highest risk of getting sick or suffering serious complications are being offered the vaccine.

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