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H1N1 vaccine here today
Published Wednesday, October 28, 2009
High-risk persons may receive H1N1 “swine” flu vaccines at the Covington County Health Department (CCHD) in Andalusia today from 9 a.m. until the department runs out of vaccines, or until 6 p.m., whichever comes first.
The priority groups include young children, pregnant women, caregivers of babies and health care workers, state health officials said Tuesday.
CCHD administrator Ziba Anderson declined to say specifically how many H1N1 flu vaccines were received in the county, but said “we’ve got a pretty good supply.”
The Alabama Department of Public Health announced yesterday it has 55,000 doses available, which means it must be careful to vaccinate those at the highest risk first.
The number of doses sent to each county health department has been allocated based on population. Every county will have at least 100 doses with larger counties receiving doses in the thousands.
A previous batch of 100,000 doses has been sent to 132 health care providers so far, with instructions for doctors to reserve them for people in the priority groups.
Comments
Posted by biscuitsandhoovergravy (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 10:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The other day my neighbor Melvin,who is a big Bama fan, and I were discussing the flu shot and our decision to not get it. As we were chatting he mentioned that he had just been to the Dr. to get some relief from his homorrhoids. The Dr.gave him some suppositories and told him " when these are all gone you should be just fine". Well he went back when they were all gone and he was still in a great deal of pain. The Dr. asked him if he had followed his instructions and Melvin said " I sure did Doc... but for all the good they did I could have just as well stuckem up my ...".
Posted by swswilliam (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 11:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Weegle Weegle.
Posted by rgodwin (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 5:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)
biscuitsandhoovergravy , you're killing me!
Posted by WAtidefan (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 7:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Biscuits: You know you are making up that Bama fan part.
Posted by sweetie (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 8:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I nominate biscuits for State Health Comissioner. Do I get a second motion?? Can you just imagine the press releases
from "his" office? ha ha.
Posted by justwingit (anonymous) on October 30, 2009 at 7:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Biscuits, you sure keep your audience laughing.
More info against H1N1 shot go to comments on "School flu clinic delayed"
Posted by Shamrock (anonymous) on October 30, 2009 at 8:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sweetie: I second that motion! Winkie and Biscuits could sub on SNL.
Thanks, wingit, I'm heading that way now.
Posted by biscuitsandhoovergravy (anonymous) on October 31, 2009 at 10:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sweetie...I wanna run the AEA. If only for a week.
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