Demand For The Vaccine Against Swine Influenza In The Lower East Kentucky
Compared with the rest of our region, lines of swine influenza vaccines are relatively short in eastern Kentucky.
Health officials say that the reason for this is not so bad. Kentucky, more than 176,000 doses of vaccine against previously thought, which would vaccinate about 5 percent of the population. Although not so historic, only 5 percent of the population is vaccination against seasonal influenza:
Instead, clinics, mass vaccination, Boyd County Health Department has vaccine transport offices of physicians specializing in high-risk patients. Most respondents in the first and the medical personnel were at the top.
In clinical vaccine against swine influenza in Lawrence County Wednesday, it was expressly limited to children with chronic diseases. Other high-risk groups will be targeted in the coming days. And, like all hospitals in our region, who continue to wait for enough vaccine to clinics for the public opening.
It is rather a vaccine for 50 percent of the population in January.