Students in nine counties in Southeast Tennessee will be able to get their H1N1 vaccines during in-school clinics starting next week, local health officials said today.
The clinics will be held at schools in Bledsoe, Bradley, Franklin, Grundy, McMinn, Marion, Polk, Rhea and Sequatchie counties. Parents should be getting permission slips sent home with students this week and continuing next week, officials said.
The first clinic will begin on Monday, Nov. 30.
“The Tennessee Department of Health urges parents to take steps to protect their children from H1N1 flu by ensuring they receive this vaccine,” said Dr. Jan BeVille, Southeast Regional health officer, in a news release. “Vaccination is the single best way to protect against the flu.”
Officials at the county level will decide which schools will host the clinics, said Beth Delaney, public information officer with the Southeast Region of the Tennessee Department of Health, which includes the 10 Tennessee counties surrounding Hamilton County.
For complete details see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Health care reporter Emily Bregel has worked at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since July 2006. She previously covered banking and wrote for the Life section. Emily, a native of Baltimore, Md., earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Columbia University. She received a first-place award for feature writing from the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists’ Golden Press Card Contest for a 2009 article about a boy with a congenital heart defect. She ...
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