There has recently been some outrage caused in Toronto by the rumors that professional athletes have somehow managed to get to the front of the H1N1 flu vaccine lines. Two of the teams accused, the Maple Leafs and Raptors deny doing anything wrong. Most of the players are not speaking about receiving the shots.

The chief medical officer of health, Dr. Arlene King, has issued an order to doctors to only vaccinate those in the highest priority groups. These include pregnant women, children under five and health care workers. King did state yesterday that the situation does call for a review but she could not determine if there could be any consequences for doctors giving the vaccine to others than the highest risk groups.

It was only a few days ago that the brass from the Calgary Flames organization had their players and family vaccinated ahead of priority groups as well.

There is a limited supply of the vaccine and health officials are trying to make sure that those people who would have the most life threatening reactions to the actual H1N1 virus are vaccinated.

The next groups after the ones already stated to get the vaccine would be senior citizens, school age children over five and then adults. Most of these people are still waiting to get their turn to have the H1N1 vaccine.

Infants under six months old cannot be vaccinated but their parents and siblings are in the high priority groups as well as daycare providers of this age group.

Outrage Following Reports Pro Athletes Getting H1N1 shots