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Vaccine to be distributed to high-risk
groups
From staff reports
The Galveston Daily News
Published 10/22/04
Health district officials
said Thursday they planned to distribute
remaining doses of flu vaccine to people
in high-risk groups during a series of
events next week at senior citizens centers.
Supplies of vaccines allocated
to clinics at District Headquarters in
La Marque and the Galveston Immunization
Clinic have been exhausted, officials
said. The remaining vaccine will be available
at county senior citizens centers during
events that were scheduled before the
national shortage.
People in high-risk groups
should call the centers, which each have
a limited number of doses, listed below
and sign up in advance for a shot
The centers where limited
vaccinations will be available from are:
- 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday
at Wayne Johnson Community Center
in Carbide Park,
4102 FM 519, La Marque. (409) 934-8148
- 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday,
at Bacliff Senior Citizens Center,
4503 11th St., Bacliff, (281)
559-2095.
- 10 a.m.-1 p.m.Tuesday
at Nessler Center,
2010 5th Ave. N. in Texas City, (409)
643-5877.
- 10 a.m.-1 p.m Friday,
Oct. 29, at Bay Vue United Methodist
Church, 1441 Highway 87 in Crystal
Beach,
(409) 684-2273 or (409) 684-6678
Previously registered patients
of the health district’s 4C’s
clinics may still receive a flu shot at
the Galveston Clinic at 4700 Broadway,
and the Texas City Clinic at 2000 Texas
Ave. in Texas City. 4C’s patients
may walk in for a nursing visit to obtain
a flu shot as long as vaccine is available.
For more information about vaccine availability
for 4C’s, patients call the 4C’s
NurseLine at (409) 938-2355.
Under the CDC guidelines
the following priority groups are being
targeted to receive any remaining vaccine:
- Children aged 6-23
months.
- Adults 65 years and
older.
- People with underlying
chronic conditions.
- Women who will be pregnant
during the influenza season.
- Residents of nursing
homes and long-term care facilities.
- Children on chronic
aspirin therapy.
- Health care workers
involved in direct patient care.
- Out-of-home caregivers
and household contacts of children
less than six months old.
For more information, call
(409) 938-2244 or (409) 938-2291.
read the press
release
For More Information
Contact:
Kurt Koopmann
Public Information Officer
Galveston County Health District
(409) 938-2211
kkoopman@gchd.org
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