If you're a health care worker in New York, you won't be required to get the H1N1 vaccine after all. The state is temporarily backing away from making H1N1 vaccines mandatory. Curtis Schick has more.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York State will not require health care workers to get the controversial H1N1 vaccine after all. The state has rescinded the mandate that caused outrage from some members of the medical community who felt that the requirement violated civil rights, but the state says pressure from some in the health care community wasn't the reason behind this.

State Health Commissioner Richard Daines says the reason for the suspension is that manufacturers haven't been able to make the vaccines fast enough. Daines says that only a little less than a quarter of the doses New York requested have arrived. The state has only received a little more than one and a half million of the 7.2 million it is slated to get.

Earlier Thursday, Daines acknowledged shortages, but was confident New York would have enough.

But now, despite Daines' previous statements emphasizing that the mandate was in the best interest of patient care, H1N1 vaccines will be limited to pregnant women, people under the age of 24 and people at risk for serious illness or death. And this means mandatory vaccination for health care workers is on hold.

"It just hasn't come off the production lines as fast as anticipated and since our mandate required immunization of health care workers by November 30th. We couldn't mandate that without setting up a competition between health care workers and the patients they are there to serve," Daines said.

And to give you an idea of the demand, Daines says that in the first two days the H1N1 vaccine was made available, the state had about 1.4 million orders and could only come up with around 140,000 doses.