CJOB News Team reporting
11/21/2009
No one had to battle long lineups at this weekend's H1N1 flu vaccination clinics in Winnipeg...
837 people were immunized today, bringhing the cumulative total to 170,115.
Heidi Graham, a spokeswoman with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, says by late this morning, staff had only given shots to 129 people at the city's two clinics.
Graham says that's a pretty low number compared to last week, when there were considerable lineups at about a dozen clinics, but she adds there's a likely explanation for the big drop.
By Friday afternoon, clinics had run out of adjuvanted vaccine, which has a compound in it to boost the body's immune system.
Dr. Sande Harlos (SAHN'-dee HAR'-lohss), medical officer of health for the local health region, says only pregnant women and healthy people between 10 and 64-years-old can receive the vaccine without the immune booster.
Harlos says they're expecting a shipment of least 65,000 doses of the regular vaccine in the next few days, and could again open up vaccinations to everyone, perhaps as early as Tuesday.
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