After 6 weeks of public clinics to give H1N1 shots from those who are among the priority groups to the general populace, the number of residents in the Perth County who showed up to get the vaccine has been nothing but staggering relative to the regular flu shot campaigns of the past. To be more specific, there have been more than 20,000 residents (which is roughly 27% of the county’s population) who have showed up to get themselves an H1N1 vaccine whereas records from the previous year’s showed only around 7,000 people have been getting the seasonal flu vaccine.
This only goes to show of how successful the public clinics and the people behind them have been in their campaign to protect as many residents as possible from the dreaded H1N1 flu. We all need to give the medical practitioners a big hand for a job well done indeed especially given such a circumstance.
There are still plenty of vaccine supplies to come around at the health unit just in case they will be needed. There are also plans of catch-up clinics to be held starting in the new year just to make sure everyone who needs them gets a chance to get vaccinated.
