Swine Flu Vaccine Offered at BART
Posted by Denise Tejada on January 26, 2010 at 11:20am
photo: shooting brooklyn/Creative Commons
 

If you ride BART and still haven’t gotten the swine flue vaccine then you're in luck: the vaccine will be available this week at Oakland's 12 Street BART station. The swine flu vaccine will be offered at a clinic in the BART station on Wednesday January 26th at 3pm until 6pm or until supply runs out. This partnership is between public health and transportation agencies.

12th Street BART station isn’t the only place to get vaccinated. Walgreens is also offering the vaccine for $18. After worrying that there weren’t enough of the vaccines to go around, people now can get vaccinated during their commute or while developing pictures.

One in five Americans have been vaccinated based on the results of two government telephone surveys.

“The surveys concluded that an estimated 61 million people -- or about 20 percent of the population -- got a shot or nasal spray vaccination against the H1N1 virus since the vaccine became available in the fall.”

(via The Washington Post)

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) concluded in November of 2009 that 50 million Americas were stricken with the swine flu and that number of deaths had reached 10,000.
 




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