Pregnant women in Muskingum County are still waiting for their H1N1 and seasonal flu shots.
Today's clinic at Rambo Memorial Health gave 150 H1N1 shots to pregnant women. Bebout says there are still 200 pregnant women on a list to get their seasonal flu shot and 40 women on the list to get their H1N1 shots. Bebout says she is hoping more vaccine will come in soon.
"I called Ohio Department of Health today and they basically told me that it would be...
Record crowds swarmed the Muskingum County fairgrounds today to get free seasonal flu shots.
But the free clinic ran out of flu shots around four this afternoon, three hours before the clinic was scheduled to close.
"The clinic has ordered about 13,000 flu shots so if the flu shots we have here today are gone by the end of the day, we will have given 13,000 flu shots in 5 days," says Crystal Bebout the Executive Director at Rambo Memorial Health Center.
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Muskingum County residents planning to get their seasonal flu shot down at the fairgrounds on Thursday will have to wait another week.
According to Rambo Health Center Executive Director Crystal Bebout, the companies the center ordered the vaccines from set an initial delivery date of August 28.
"Because of that early date and because of the H1N1 outbreak, we decided to start our immunization earlier this year," said Bebout. "We recieved two of the manufacturers...
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