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MORE FLU CLINICS SET
Spotsylvania and Fredericksburg schools will have their first H1N1 clinics this week
Date published: 11/3/2009
BY JIM HALL Schools in Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg will get their first shipments of H1N1 vaccine this week, though they'll offer the nasal-mist version only. Spotsylvania will distribute up to 1,310 doses of the vaccine tonight at Riverbend High School, beginning at 5 p.m. Fredericksburg will hold its clinic tomorrow at Lafayette Upper Elementary School, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Up to 800 doses will be available. Dr. John Petrasky, director of the Rappahannock Area Health District, said he was not able to offer either school system the injectable version of the vaccine. The nasal version, or FluMist, is sprayed into the nostrils. It is approved for people ages 2 through 49 who are not pregnant and have no underlying medical conditions. More than 80 percent of children are able to take the nasal version, Petrasky said. Children with respiratory problems are excluded. "The FluMist is a great vaccine. The big problem with it is that the kids who are asthmatics are going to be turned away," Petrasky said. With the two clinics this week, public schools in all five localities in the region will have hosted clinics. Two private schools, Fredericksburg Christian and Fredericksburg Academy, also have received vaccine from the Health Department and hosted clinics. Dr. Karen Remley, state health commissioner, attended Friday's clinic at Fredericksburg Academy. Remley said in a phone interview yesterday that she was the luncheon speaker at a convention of school nurses in Chantilly Friday. She said she wanted to stop at a school vaccination clinic on the way to Northern Virginia to see how the program was working. Petrasky suggested the one at Fredericksburg Academy and joined her there. "I was also interested in seeing how we're working with the private schools to make sure that we were meeting the needs of all kids to get vaccinated," she said. Remley watched for about an hour as volunteer doctors and nurses vaccinated the children. "I was very impressed at the thoughtful way that it was run," she said. The school had received about 600 doses, 300 each of the two types of vaccine. At the end of the day, it had vaccinated about 500 students and returned about 100 doses of the nasal mist to the Health Department, said Robert Graves, headmaster.
Read more stories about Fredericksburg Date published: 11/3/2009
H1N1 flu vaccine
(posted by
kspecial
, Nov. 4, 2009 3:05 pm)
Stafford County has received additonal doses of the H1N1
flu vaccine and will hold a clinic tonight, Wednesday,
November 4 from 5:00p.m. until 8:00p.m. at Mountain View
High School. The school is located at 2135 Mountain View
Rd. This vaccine will be offered to Stafford County Public
School students age 5 or older ONLY. Attendees are
asked not to arrive before 3:00p.m.
Questions should be directed to the high school staff at
540-658-6840.
No thought seems to be being given
(posted by
brightheart
, Nov. 3, 2009 3:19 pm)
to the need for some children to have the shot instead of the vaccine and no one is providing for those children's needs--health dept should be making sure that version is available to the double risk kids and pregnant women, but it seems like it was just handed out to anyone who was in line at earlier clinics even though the people who got it would have been fine with the mist. Now spotsy gets only mist and the highest risk kids get nothing. If parents are getting in line for shots, they need to step back
Petrasky has a lot to answer for- Does he not work for the taxpayers??
(posted by
tpifos
, Nov. 3, 2009 2:07 pm)
Why doesn't the paper ask some of these tough questions
that only appear on the blogs? It sounds like gross
mismanagement & elitism when he's picking & choosing
who is getting the vaccine first & limiting quantities to the
systems in most need. NO parents should be getting the
vaccine. Fredericksburg Academy & Fred Chrisitan parents
should be ashamed. Petrasky has a lot of explaining to do.
Big Mess
(posted by
lulu0202
, Nov. 3, 2009 1:16 pm)
The whole H1N1 vaccine distribution has been a mess and no one should be proud of how it has been handled, I have a 2-year old with asthma that has not been able to get the vaccination yet. The best I could was get him on a waiting list at his Pediatrician. Shame on any one not in the high-risk priority groups that have gotten the vaccine,
Allforone is Correct
(posted by
rightwingnut
, Nov. 3, 2009 12:47 pm)
I know FA parents that recieved the vaccination at the FA Clinic. It is quite frustrating when my asthmatic child can not receive one!! I'm glad for the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania children that will finally be able to take the mist, however what about the children that are at the highest risk of death???
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