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Chicago's Swine Flu Vaccination Effort Evolving
Produced by Gabriel Spitzer on Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Chicago health officials expect to vaccinate thousands more people for swine flu today. That’s after hundreds were reportedly turned away at clinics over the weekend.
Health workers doled out nearly 7,000 shots at six city colleges Saturday. Dr. Julie Morita says people seeking vaccine formed long lines, and supplies ran out quickly. Morita is medical director for the Chicgao health department’s immunization program. She says she thinks people who need the vaccine most are getting it.
MORITA: Over all I was very pleased to see the pregnant women and the school-age children there, getting vaccinated. So it seems to me, the message has gotten out, that we are trying to vaccinate people who are in the high-priority groups.
The clinics re-open today from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m., with roughly the same number of doses as they had Saturday. Morita says the city will apply some lessons learned from that first experience. She says workers will formalize the “take-a-number” system, so people will know right when they arrive whether there will be enough doses for them. Officials say they expect more vaccine to arrive each week.
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