The first clinic will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 25 from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Health Department. This clinic is by appointment only and for anyone desiring an H1N1 vaccination.
The Health Department will be providing H1N1 vaccines for children ages 0 – 9 on Monday, Nov. 30 and Monday, Dec. 14 from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Health Department by appointment only. These clinics are only for children who need their second dose of the H1N1 vaccine. Parents should bring vaccine records to the clinics.
There must be 28 days between the first and second H1N1 vaccines. If a child received their first vaccine at the Health Department clinic on Oct. 24, they can come to the Nov. 30 clinic. If they received their first vaccine at Piedmont High School on Nov. 14, they can come to the Dec. 14 clinic.
For more information or to make appointments, call the Union County Health Department at 704-296-4800.
Reminder:
The Health Department is holding an H1N1 flu clinic today (Thursday, Nov. 19) from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. at Forest Hills High School located at Forest Hills High School Road South in Marshville. The flu shots are free.
The following groups will be vaccinated at the clinic:
Pregnant women
Caregivers for children that are 6 months and younger
Children and young adults age 6 months to 24 years of age
Healthcare and EMS workers
Persons age 25 to 64 who have medical conditions (diabetes, asthma, respiratory illness, heart disease, kidney disease, neurological disorders and others) that put them at higher-risk for flu related complications.
If you look at the pandemic of 1977, when H1N1 or Swine Flu re-emerged after a 20 year absence, there is no shift in age-related mortality pattern. The 1977 “pandemic” is, of course, not considered a true pandemic by experts today, for reasons that are not entierely consistent. It certainly was an antigenic shift and not an antigenic drift. As far as I have been able to follow the current events, the most significant factor seems to have been that most people, who were severely affected, were people with other medical conditions.