BREAKING: Clinton, Beloit flu vaccination clinics cancelled
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CLINTON — The Rock County Health Department has cancelled the H1N1 vaccination clinics scheduled for Clinton and Beloit, and replaced them with a mass vaccination clinic at the Rock County Job Center.
According to a news release released Monday afternoon, the clinics at Clinton High School on Tuesday, Oct. 27 and Beloit-Turner School District on Oct. 28 have been cancelled.
In their place, the health department will conduct a mass vaccination clinic from 3 p.m.- 7 p.m. on Oct. 27 and 28 at the Rock County Job Center, located at 1900 Center Ave, Janesville.
According to the news release:
Due to vaccine shortages, the health department will only be offering intranasal vaccine to Rock County residents who meet the following criteria:
1. Healthy persons 2- 4 years
2. Healthy persons age 5 - 49 years who live with or care for an infant under age 6 months (parents, siblings and daycare providers)
3. Healthy health care workers and emergency medical services personnel up to age 49, who have direct contact with patients or infectious material.
4. People receiving the vaccine at these clinics must be residents of Rock County.
When the injectable vaccine becomes available, additional risk groups will be served.
Clinics scheduled in other school districts are not currently affected, but may be cancelled if additional vaccine does not arrive.
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Oct 27, 2009 at 6:39 a.m.
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This issue, of flu vaccines shortages, isn't new- I find it hard to believe that Obama or the government is hoarding the vaccine to scare anyone. Flu vaccine shortages occured under George Bushes administration. Unfortunately we all just need to be patient and take care of ourselves.
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