by KYW's Brad Segall
Bucks County officials will be setting up mass vaccination clinics in all 13 school districts starting next week as the county tries to protect school-aged children from the H1N1 flu virus.
Parents should already have letters in hand explaining how the program will work. It starts Tuesday in Bristol and continues over the next two weeks in all 13 districts. County health officials felt it was best to target school kids since the state is reporting that nearly 60 percent of all swine flu cases are seen in people ages 5 through 19. Bucks Health Department director Dr. David Damsker:
“We received 15,000 injectable doses and 4000 nasal spray doses from the state’s vaccine supply. I felt that this amount was substantial enough for us to begin planning and conducting the clinics in our schools.”
More doses are expected. Parents need to return the consent forms that were sent home before their children will be vaccinated. Anywhere from 20 to 60 percent have come back so far.
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