H1N1 vaccine appointments gone in two hours

Published 10/23/09

The county Department of Health offered a limited number of appointments for the H1N1 vaccine this morning and were all out within two hours, officials said.

At 8:30 a.m., the Emergency Operations Center in Glen Burnie began taking phone calls and making appointments to provide nasal spray vaccination clinics for the H1N1, or swine flu. The clinics are being held at the Glen Burnie and Odenton Health Centers sometime next week.

The number of available appointments ran out rather quickly, with officials making 450 appointments, spokeswoman Elin Jones said.

The last time vaccine availability was announced, more than 20,000 people visited the Health Department's Web site and nine phone lines were inundated with calls. It is unclear when appointments will be available again. Target groups for the vaccine are the following:

• Those who live with or provide care for infants less than 6 months old. • Health care and emergency medical services personnel. • Healthy people 2 to 24 years old.

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This is not acceptable - 2009-10-23 21:45:20

With the resources that we have in this state and country, we should have all the vaccines we need. Our government uses so many of the resources that we taxpayers pay for on so many frivolous things, that when we really need and want something, we can't get it. Think of all the Billions we are spending overseas and on all kinds of other expenses. Why aren't we producing vaccines as fast as it can be done?? There is a likely possibility that someone in our community will die this year due to not being able to get vaccinated. Our political leaders have let us down. Anyone who wanted to be vaccinated should have already been able to be. Inexcusable.

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