H1N1 vaccine on way to campus
Students, faculty to receive notification when supplies arrive, official says
McLean Bennett
Issue date: 10/29/09 Section: Campus News
Thoune said that means most college students will likely be in line for vaccinations once Phase 2 starts up.
Several students said they would be willing to get the vaccine if it was available.
"I know there's multiple girls on my floor who have (H1N1 flu) right now. It's just kind of a little scary - you always are just cautious, constantly washing your hands, making sure everything's clean. If it wasn't too expensive, I would definitely get (the vaccine)," freshman Hannah Vanhefty said.
Junior Emily Young, a nursing student who currently works at a nursing home in Bloomer, said she received the vaccine recently and would recommend others get it once it becomes available.
Young said she knew there were risks involved with getting the vaccine, noting that she wasn't sure what the vaccination's possible long-term side effects might be. But she said she was vaccinated anyway because she wanted to make sure she wouldn't spread the virus to the people she works with at the nursing home.
"I just think the main risk is that it's a brand new vaccination; you don't know down the road what the effects are going to be. But that's always the risk, I think, with any vaccine," Young said.
About 11.3 million vaccine doses had been shipped as of Oct. 21 - about 237,600 of which had been shipped to Wisconsin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site.
Several students said they would be willing to get the vaccine if it was available.
"I know there's multiple girls on my floor who have (H1N1 flu) right now. It's just kind of a little scary - you always are just cautious, constantly washing your hands, making sure everything's clean. If it wasn't too expensive, I would definitely get (the vaccine)," freshman Hannah Vanhefty said.
Junior Emily Young, a nursing student who currently works at a nursing home in Bloomer, said she received the vaccine recently and would recommend others get it once it becomes available.
Young said she knew there were risks involved with getting the vaccine, noting that she wasn't sure what the vaccination's possible long-term side effects might be. But she said she was vaccinated anyway because she wanted to make sure she wouldn't spread the virus to the people she works with at the nursing home.
"I just think the main risk is that it's a brand new vaccination; you don't know down the road what the effects are going to be. But that's always the risk, I think, with any vaccine," Young said.
About 11.3 million vaccine doses had been shipped as of Oct. 21 - about 237,600 of which had been shipped to Wisconsin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site.
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Ron Amerson
posted 10/29/09 @ 9:35 PM CST
Please: Quit panicking over this flu bug.
According to the World Health Organization, there have been 5,000 deaths in the world from this H1N1 virus! (Out of how many people in the world?) Of that, 1,000 are in America. (Continued…)
Matt
posted 10/30/09 @ 1:00 AM CST
I bet Obama created H1N1 to force socialized medicine on us!
lee
posted 10/30/09 @ 11:58 AM CST
The vaccine could cause long term dangerous effects.
H1N1VaccineDangers.com
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