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David Stanley Ford

As more H1N1 vaccine comes, priorities grow in Oklahoma City

BY SUSAN SIMPSON    Comments Comment on this article3
Published: November 3, 2009

Four public swine flu immunization clinics are scheduled this month at Oklahoma City-area schools, including one Saturday at John Marshall High School.

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Anyone bringing a child to a vaccination clinic who is not the parent must have a signed permission slip from the parent authorizing the immunizations. The slip must read:

"I (full name of parent) give permission for (full name of person) to obtain the H1N1 vaccination for: (All children must be listed with full names and date of birth).”

This slip must be signed and dated with the date the child is brought to the clinic.

Vaccinations at the clinics are free. They will be offered to those in the priority groups, which have expanded to include pregnant women, people 6 months to 18 years old, custodial parents of infants younger than 6 months old, adults age 19 to 64 with chronic disease and health care workers who have direct contact with acutely ill patients.

About 93,100 doses of shots and nasal spray are expected this week for distribution to county health departments and some health care providers.

"Although the amount of vaccine that our state has received so far is not enough to meet the demand, our goal is to deliver as many vaccinations as possible,” state Epidemiologist Dr. Kristy Bradley said.

"The H1N1 flu virus continues to strike children and pregnant women particularly hard. We encourage people included in the priority groups to continue to seek a vaccination.”

City clinics set
The Oklahoma City clinics are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at these dates and locations:


• Saturday: John Marshall High School, 12201 N Portland Ave.


• Nov. 14: Star Spencer High School, 3001 N Spencer Road, Spencer.


• Nov. 14: Douglass Mid-High School, 900 Martin Luther King Ave.


• Nov. 21: Northwest Classen High School, 2801 NW 27.

No seasonal flu vaccinations will be given at the clinics. Spanish translators will be available.

For more information, call the state Health Department toll-free H1N1 hot line at (866) 278-7134.

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What will make you really at risk? From what I have read, it is obesity. Being obese increases one's risk by 6x a person of normal weight for having to be admitted to a hsopital. Obesity is associated with a high incidence of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, both of which would increase one’s risk of having a serious infection, even to viruses that are mildly pathogenic (read mild viruses).
Matt1, OKC - Nov 3, 2009 at 1:06 pm
How hard does it really hit pregnant women? Dr. Michael Bronze, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, writing for emedicine medscape.com (WebMD), states that the risk of a pregnant women being hospitalized with the H1N1 infection is 0.32 per 100,000 pregnant women (which is 1 in 300,000 pregnant women).

Based on the Australian/New Zealand experience (at the peak of their flu season) and the American data somewhere in the middle of their flu season, that pregnant women have about a 99.97% chance they will not become so sick as to require hospital care at any level.
Matt1, OKC - Nov 3, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Places to avoid. You're more likely to get flu standing in line. Looooonnng lines.
stinkerpants, Oklahoma City - Nov 3, 2009 at 12:03 pm

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