Quick Fact: Hannity used insufficient H1N1 vaccine supply - which he blamed on gov't - to attack health reform

Sean Hannity blamed the H1N1 vaccine shortage on the government and suggested that the shortage is indicative of the government's ability to reform health care.

From the November 11 edition of Hannity:

HANNITY: There are some parents that don't want to vaccinate their kids. Which by the way, Deirdre Imus, if you're watching, fine, I understand. She excoriated me for suggesting that people might want to get it. But if people do want it, it's not available, because the government didn't produce enough of it. Is this the same government that now has the capacity to take over health care?

Fact: CDC, Sebelius say private sector manufacturers' projections of available vaccines were too high.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr. Thomas Friedan said that vaccine supplies were below the number predicted because the estimates from the private sector vaccine manufacturers -- presumably the experts in flu vaccine manufacturing -- were too high. Friedan stated: “What we have learned more in the last couple of weeks is that not only is the virus unpredictable, but vaccine production is much less predictable than we wish. We are nowhere near where we thought we'd be by now. We are not near where the vaccine manufacturers predicted we would be.” And Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has called the projections the government received from the manufacturers “overly rosy.”