H1N1 immunization clinics start Monday in Oneida County Schools

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By GARY LIBERATORE

Story Created: Nov 20, 2009 at 12:37 PM EST

Story Updated: Nov 20, 2009 at 12:37 PM EST

(WKTV) - Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, along with the county's health department officials met with several area superintendents Friday morning to discuss the upcoming plan to inoculate all 37,000 students in the county's 19 school districts.

All superintendents in attendance are onboard with the upcoming schedule, which is basically still not all set in stone yet, it all depends on the ever-changing amount of vaccine that comes in.
Right now, the county has 6,400 doses that it can administer. County health officials say the first priority are the northern most schools, Remsen, Adirondack, Camden and Holland Patent, mainly because of snow day concerns.

Those will be the first four districts to have clinics. Remsen will be first starting on Monday. Parents will have to sign a consent form in order to allow their child to be immunized. If you have any questions, you should contact your child's school or the district offices.

Oneida County Spokesperson Cathe Bullwinkle says each district will host one or more informational meetings. Bullwinkle says eh number one question parents have had at eh ones already held is, is the H1N1 vaccine safe? Bullwinkle says it is, "The vaccine is very safe, there have been really limited reports of any kind of adverse reaction, it takes about 90 days from the time they actually begin the vaccine, when they first inoculate the egg, until it goes into the box, during that time it goes through multiple testings and then the final lots are tested, so it has the same rigorous testing that the seasonal flu sot goes, and that has now been found very similar to the seasonal flu vaccine."

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