Vaccine not distributed locally yet
NORWICH – Chenango County has received an $103,000 emergency preparedness grant and 400 doses of the H1N1 vaccine from the state health department, but nobody’s been inoculated yet.
Public health officials plan to distribute the vaccine and set up clinics in a stepped system, beginning first with school districts and followed by providers who want the vaccine for their patients who are pregnant or who live with or provide care for infants younger than 6 months of age.
Chenango County Department of Public Health Director Marcas Flindt said the department is waiting to amass enough vaccine and meeting with school districts to discuss procedures.
Emergency medical services personnel would receive care after the schools, followed by individuals ages 6 to 24, and then by people ages 25 to 64 who have medical conditions that put them at a higher risk for influenza.
While there were no cases confirmed in the county at present, Flindt said he’s certain that swine flu is here. Data collected by an official reporting group of health care providers from across the state confirmed that there were 284 cases of H1N1 in New York and only five cases of the seasonal flu.
“Seasonal flus haven’t appeared yet,” he said. “It’s almost all swine flu.”
Flindt said the department has not received notice of a court-ordered injunction against New York Department of Health Commissioner Richard Daines that would stop requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against swine flu.
“We’ll see what happens. We haven’t done anything with it here yet,” he said. Two hundred doses of nasal spray and 200 doses of the injectable vaccine have been received over the past two weeks. Another shipment is expected this week.
According to the international Center for Disease Control, the 2009 H1N1 vaccine is the most effective way to prevent illness caused by the H1N1 flu. The vaccine is being manufactured by the same five drug companies that curently make the seasonal flu shots.
“The process that is being used to make the 2009 H1N1 vaccine is the exact same procedure that is used to make seasonal flu vaccine,” said Flindt in a press release. “The major difference is that with seasonal flu shots, there are three strains of flu virus in the vaccine.”
Seasonal flu vaccine has two Influenza A strains and one Influenza B strain. The 2009 H1N1 vaccine has only one Influenza A strain and that is the 2009 H1N1 virus that started making people ill last April, he said.
The Center for Disease Control does not anticipate a shortage of the vaccine.
Public health officials plan to distribute the vaccine and set up clinics in a stepped system, beginning first with school districts and followed by providers who want the vaccine for their patients who are pregnant or who live with or provide care for infants younger than 6 months of age.
Chenango County Department of Public Health Director Marcas Flindt said the department is waiting to amass enough vaccine and meeting with school districts to discuss procedures.
Emergency medical services personnel would receive care after the schools, followed by individuals ages 6 to 24, and then by people ages 25 to 64 who have medical conditions that put them at a higher risk for influenza.
While there were no cases confirmed in the county at present, Flindt said he’s certain that swine flu is here. Data collected by an official reporting group of health care providers from across the state confirmed that there were 284 cases of H1N1 in New York and only five cases of the seasonal flu.
“Seasonal flus haven’t appeared yet,” he said. “It’s almost all swine flu.”
Flindt said the department has not received notice of a court-ordered injunction against New York Department of Health Commissioner Richard Daines that would stop requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against swine flu.
“We’ll see what happens. We haven’t done anything with it here yet,” he said. Two hundred doses of nasal spray and 200 doses of the injectable vaccine have been received over the past two weeks. Another shipment is expected this week.
According to the international Center for Disease Control, the 2009 H1N1 vaccine is the most effective way to prevent illness caused by the H1N1 flu. The vaccine is being manufactured by the same five drug companies that curently make the seasonal flu shots.
“The process that is being used to make the 2009 H1N1 vaccine is the exact same procedure that is used to make seasonal flu vaccine,” said Flindt in a press release. “The major difference is that with seasonal flu shots, there are three strains of flu virus in the vaccine.”
Seasonal flu vaccine has two Influenza A strains and one Influenza B strain. The 2009 H1N1 vaccine has only one Influenza A strain and that is the 2009 H1N1 virus that started making people ill last April, he said.
The Center for Disease Control does not anticipate a shortage of the vaccine.
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