Dallas Shares More H1N1 Vaccine With Pharmacies

By BJ Austin, KERA News

Dallas, TX –

More H1N1 flu vaccine has arrived in Dallas County. KERA's BJ Austin says the doses are going to local pharmacies and for shot clinics at three locations Monday and Tuesday.

Medical Director Dr. John Carlo says they got 23 thousand new doses Friday morning. 16 thousand of those are going to participating pharmacies; including Walgreen's, Wal-Mart, CVS, Kroger and Tom Thumb.

Carlo: We do recognize that this is an ability for us to get the vaccines out as quickly as possible, in order to make sure that if the winter time does have a recurrence of cases as many people who are in the priority groups are protected as possible.

A list of all participating pharmacies is on the county's website, dallascounty.org

About four thousand doses will be given Monday and Tuesday at county clinics in Farmers Branch and Irving, as well as the main Health Department on Stemmons Expressway. Shots are by "appointment only." The County has added phones and call-takers for the hotline: 214-819-6001.

All appointments for tomorrow's H1N1 shot clinic at Antioch Fellowship Church on South Hampton have been filled.

For more H1N1 resources go to the health section of our economy blog at kera.org/economy

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