C-U Public Health District offering vaccinations for kids
CHAMPAIGN – The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District will begin offering walk-in H1N1 vaccination clinics for babies and children ages 6 months to 5 years old starting this morning.
Walk-in clinics will be held at the public health building at 201 W. Kenyon Road, C, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today through Friday, as long as the vaccine supply lasts.
The vaccinations are being offered free to the public, but parents must sign consent forms. To get through the line faster, parents can print the consent forms from the public health Web site and fill them out before arriving. The forms can be found online at www.c-uphd.org/documents/h1n1/H1N1-consent-school-en.pdf.
Public Health Administrator Julie Pryde said the district got 1,500 vaccine doses from Fulton County, giving Champaign-Urbana enough to hold its first walk-in clinics.
The local health district is starting the walk-in clinics with 4,500 doses of nasal mist vaccine and just under 1,000 doses of injectable vaccine, she said.
The nasal mist vaccine is intended only for people ages 2 through 49 in good health and will be administered to all kids brought to the walk-in clinics who fall in that category, Pryde said. Others will receive the injectable vaccine.
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