BAPMG News

Influenza update Dec 15, 2009

Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:56

Breaking News:  Some Infant-dose H1N1 Vaccine Recalled

Influenza activity continues to be declining over the past two weeks.  The illness so far continues to be mild in the majority of cases.  The vast majority of proven influenza disease in the community continues to be H1N1.  We have not seen any seasonal influenza strains so far.

Vaccine supplies have increased significantly over the past week.  We have received large amounts of:

• H1N1 Multidose Preservative Containing Injectable Vaccine
• H1N1 Live Attenuated Nasal Mist vaccine
• Seasonal Flu Preservative Free Injectable vaccine for 6-35 months of age
• Seasonal Live Attenuated Nasal Mist Vaccine
• Seasonal Preservative Free Injectable vaccine for ages 3-21 years of age

H1N1 preservative free vaccine supply remains very limited throughout the county and at BAPMG.

We have been vigorously working at clearing our waiting lists for first doses of H1N1 vaccine to Tier 1 patients.  If you have not received a call to schedule an appointment for your child’s first dose, feel free to call the office and we will schedule an appointment.  Starting the week of Dec 21, we will also begin scheduling second doses.  We expect to begin scheduling Tier 2 patients later this month.    So far we have administered approximately 10,000 doses of H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccine.  We estimate that an additional 8,000 doses need to be administered.  We expect the vaccination process to continue well into the new year.

Our recent open flu clinics in San Carlos have been very successful.  Large numbers of patients took advantage of the clinics and were able to receive vaccine with very little waiting times.  We will schedule more of these walk-in clinics in the near future.