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Fewer students receiving H1N1 vaccination
Published December 3, 2009
School leaders say the H1N1 vaccination clinics are going well, but fewer students are being administered vaccines than they expected.
“Well, we’ve had a lower number than we’d hoped for,” said Sandra Anderson, lead nurse for the Jackson County Schools.
Scottsboro City Schools’ Nurse Supervisor Wendy Hastings mirrored Anderson’s statement, saying the numbers of students being vaccinated are not looking anywhere near the numbers they had anticipated.
The school-based H1N1 vaccine clinics began this week for both the city and county schools. Staff from the Jackson County Health Department was at the schools to help with vaccinating the school-aged target group of students ages 9 years and younger.
Based on the number of signed parental consent forms, approximately 18.7 percent of Brownwood’s 332 students were getting the vaccine Wednesday, while 26.5 percent of Caldwell’s 355 students and 16.5 percent of Nelson’s 278 students were vaccinated.
Anderson said nurses have given approximately 172 in the six schools within the county system that have held clinics this week.
More school-based clinics will be held on Thursday, Dec. 3 at both Section and Pisgah High schools from 8:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. and at Macedonia and Dutton schools from 12:30 p.m. until 3 p.m. The following week, the county schools will sponsor clinics on Monday, Dec. 7 at both North Sand Mountain and Rosalie schools from 8:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. and at Bryant and Flat Rock schools from 12:30 p.m. until 3 p.m.
Vaccinations for the elementary schools in the Scottsboro City Schools system were finished Wednesday afternoon.
Hastings said the clinics were running smoothly at the three schools Wednesday, saying no children have gotten upset about being vaccinated.
“They’re doing great,” she said.
Anderson said two or three students have gotten upset, but said that other students have done well.
Both Anderson and Hastings said the students who received the first dose of the FluMist vaccine will be administered another dose in January.
Ashly Williams, a nurse with the Jackson County Health Department, said children in the age range would need both doses. Williams said the vaccine starts to protect the body from the virus with the first dose, but the children won’t have full immunity until they’ve received the second.
Hastings said she hopes students in the city system will come for the second dose within the week they return to school from Christmas break.
Dates have not been set by either school system for students to be administered the second dose.
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