Flu Vaccine For Highest Risk, For Now
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B.C. will soon have enough flu vaccine to innoculate those at highest risk in B.C.
Northern Health’s Chief Medical Officer, Doctor Lorna Medd says one company which produces about 20% of the vaccine used in Brtish Columbia has produced enough of the vaccine to ensure those at highest risk can get their flu shots around Thanksgiving time. "Initially, we will target the most frail and that would be the patients in care homes as well as their caregivers" says Medd.
She says the vaccine for the general population will likely be available around the 5th or 6th of November, which is about three weeks behind schedule.
The delays are the result of vaccine producers having some challenges getting one of the strains to replicate in the lab setting. (see previous story)
This year, the three strains expected are A-Wisconsin, A- New Caledonia and B- Malaysia.
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I could have given a loud groan had I allowed myself to do so when I received the pneumonia shot.
I have no idea what that nurse hit-but the arm can still keep me awake nights with an ache. I have tried strong linaments and rubbing it, but that needle mark is clearly evident, and the location of the pain.
Did she hit a nerve? Or drive it into the bone?
I do not know, but she surely left a lasting effect on my arm.
It does not pain all the time, but if I have a busy day and use the arm a great deal, that needle mark is a reminder of that shot.
She admitted she had only been administering a needle for 3 weeks, and I do wish they had kept
her in training a bit longer.
I will not make the same error again.
It just might save a person a bit of grief if they insisted on an experienced person.