<p>Our entire family has now been vaccinated. Here in Ontario, the vaccine is now available to everyone, as of earlier this week. A few of us had been vaccinated earlier due to other factors which put us in a high risk category.</p>
<p>juba, your interpretation is correct. The Canadian adjuvanted vaccine had to be mixed prior to injection, and once mixed, is only good for 24 hours, before it has to be discarded.</p>
<p>I got the H1N1 vaccine on the day that I volunteered to be a non medical assistant in the school vaccination program by the health dept. The health dept. offered a vaccine to all parent volunteers as an incentive to help out. I just sat at the table with the nurse doing all the paperwork for each student (checking parent consent, writing the batch number and vaccine info on the forms and handing it to the nurse when she completed the shot so she could check that it was complete, fill in the location where she gave the shot and put her signature on the paper).</p>
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<p>Tamiflu requires a doctor’s prescription. How does a “firm” just send it out to its workers without prescriptions for each specific person?</p>
<p>That’s a nice bonus for the volunteers! One of the local school systems was vaccinating parents with children early on, then stopped that after it became known. My local school system is vaccinating school staff at the same time as the children at that school. I suppose that could become a union issue, since elementary school staff are going to be vaccinated much more quickly than secondary school staff (elementaries are going first, and the process has been quite slow; I estimate that my son’s middle school will get their clinic sometime in January). Of course, it is also an issue of fairness, period, since only the school staff who are pregnant or who have underlying medical conditions should be getting it at all at this time. “People working in schools” aren’t one of the CDC’s priority groups.</p>
<p>I asked at the urgent care clinic how they determined which of the 25-to-64 year old people requesting the H1N1 actually have underlying medical conditions. The receptionist told me that they would have to show their prescriptions, and they would know from that. If they weren’t taking medication for a condition, then they didn’t have an underlying medical condition, according to her. I didn’t argue with her, but I believe she was wrong…what about people with Type 2 diabetes who are controlling it through diet, for instance?</p>
<p>Just think of what would be happening if this strain was more virulent than it is…yikes. I have seen locally how certain people can leapfrog over others to get the vaccine ahead of when they should be getting it…that sporadic leapfrogging would be a stampede!</p>
<p>We were all checked out by doctors hired by my firm, they went over how Tamiflu is to be used, before they sent the pack to us. This is the second year they have done it.</p>
<p>Our county started vaccinating high risk group in Oct. As they got more dosages, they started to expand the group. Now they are doing 6-24 age group. It is done around various locations around our county - not limited to any particular school students. I am hoping I’ll be able to get mine soon.</p>
<p>At my D1’s college, she was determined to be high risk because she had mono.</p>
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<p>Just want clarification: Do you/them mean after Dec 31, 1950, or is Jan 01, 1950? What is the cutoff, month, date, hour, please? (minute information not necessary)
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