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City schedules new flu clinic




Vaccine offered to healthy children
ATTLEBORO - The next H1N1 flu clinic will be for healthy city children on Monday but they must be pre-registered by e-mail by Saturday at 8 p.m.

The 150 doses available to be administered are the mist version of the vaccine, said Jacqueline O'Brien, Attleboro's public health nurse. She does not have any injectable vaccine.

Children, ages 2 to 18, who are city residents, are eligible to receive the H1N1 mist vaccine if they do not suffer from major health issues, such as asthma, heart disease or diabetes, O'Brien said.

The clinic is only for those who pre-register at cityofattleboronurse@gmail.com for an appointment by Saturday at 8 p.m. No phone registrations will be accepted.

The clinic will be held Monday from 6 to 7 p.m. on the first floor of city hall. Children under 10 years old will require two doses of vaccine spaced 28 days apart. If it has not been 28 days since your child's first dose of H1N1 vaccine, they cannot get the second dose at this clinic, O'Brien said.

Currently, only community-based clinics are planned to administer the H1N1 vaccine to school children and others who want the vaccination and do not get it through their personal care provider. They will not be administered to school children during the school day as has been the case of the seasonal flu vaccinations, O'Brien said.

She said no doses of the seasonal flu vaccine are available at this time.

O'Brien said more clinics will be scheduled as she receives additional doses of both the H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines.

"Hopefully, it's going to start rolling in now," she said, noting recent state Department of Public Health expectations.

As of this past weekend, the state had received just over one million doses of the H1N1 vaccine, according to a posting on the state DPH's Web site by Commissioner John Auerbach.

That's still less than one-third of the total amount of vaccine ordered by DPH, he noted.

Auerbach wrote that according to the latest projections from the federal government, the state should see a significant increase in the volume of doses in vaccine shipments by the second week in December.

 


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Anna D wrote on Nov 20, 2009 7:56 PM:

" Amen to that!! "

getreal wrote on Nov 20, 2009 7:47 AM:

" 150 doses of flu vaccine available for a city with a population of approx. 38,000. You're watching government health care at work. "