H1N1 vaccination clinics will be held at four schools on November 13
The Sedgwick County Health Department has notified the Wichita Public Schools it has 2,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine for clinics at Benton, Kensler, McCollom and Peterson on Friday, November 13.  The vaccine will be available to students and to staff who are pregnant at those schools only. Half of the doses available will be the mist and half will be by injection.

It will not be mandatory for any student to receive the H1N1 vaccine; the school clinics merely offer the vaccine in the most convenient place possible for one of the priority vaccine groups.

A packet of information, including the permission slip for students to be able to receive the vaccine, will be distributed to schools when they are notified of the clinic dates. A ParentLink message will also be sent out to families to remind them of the clinic dates.

Future dates for vaccination clinics at other schools have not been determined. Much will depend on when vaccines will be delivered to the Sedgwick County Health Department and the amount of vaccine that is received. Dates for the clinics will be provided to the schools as soon as the district receives notification.




November 6, 2009