South Dakota officials expect their second shipment of H1N1 vaccine to arrive sometime during the week of October 12th. And that means it will soon be time for the public to start getting vaccinated.

But still a lot of folks say they are skeptical about getting vaccinated despite stern warnings from health experts saying we should. Especially with more young kids dying from the virus.

In Texas, Kristen Gibson's healthy 5-year-old daughter Catherine came down with the H1N1 flu and never recovered. Kristen said, "it never occurred to me that I would leave the hospital without my daughter."

In suburban Chicago, it was a 14-year-old student at Naperville North High School. Parent Carol Dunne said, "It just breaks my heart. And I'm so sorry for her family. And I can't imagine."

In a report by the American Medical Association to be published next month, doctors are painting a frightening picture of how previously healthy young people are being fatally stricken with the Swine flu. They write critical illness occurred rapidly after hospital admission and was associated with severely low levels of oxygen in the blood, multi- system organ failure, a need for prolonged mechanical ventilation, and frequent use of rescue therapies.

In Columbus, Ohio Dr. Teresa Long said, "while children may be, and clearly are, at greater risk is because their immune system have not had an opportunity to respond to this kind of virus before."

The report also warns of the dangers of a lack of preparedness, suggesting hospitals must develop explicit policies to equitably determine who will and will not receive life support should absolute scarcity occur. A top U.S. health official says the risks from not getting the Swine flu vaccine are greater than any potential risks associated with taking the vaccine. The H1N1 virus has been blamed for the deaths of 76 children so far this flu season about as many as typically die in a full flu season ending in may .

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