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H1N1 Vaccine Who, When, and Where?

H1N1 Vaccine Who, When, and Where?. Holly Connors Community Health Registered Nurse in Epidemiology and Surveillance Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services. Who will get the vaccine?. Target groups Pregnant women People who live with or care for children <6 months of age

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H1N1 Vaccine Who, When, and Where?

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  1. H1N1 VaccineWho, When, and Where? Holly Connors Community Health Registered Nurse in Epidemiology and Surveillance Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services

  2. Who will get the vaccine? Target groups • Pregnant women • People who live with or care for children <6 months of age • Healthcare and emergency medical services personnel • Persons between the ages of 6 months and 24 years of age • People 25-64 who are at higher risk due to chronic health conditions

  3. What if there isn’t enough? Priority groups • Pregnant women • People who live with or care for children <6 months of age • Health care and emergency medical services personnel with direct patient contact • Children from 6 months through 4 years • Persons 5 years through18 who have chronic medical conditions

  4. What about the seniors? • Lower risk of infection, hospitalization and death in the 65+ age group • Some degree of pre-existing immunity in those 60 and up • No outbreaks in nursing homes thus far

  5. What about workers in schools? • Health room staff qualify as direct patient care givers • Teachers qualify if in target/priority groups • In the end, there should be enough for everyone

  6. How do we get the H1N1 vaccine? • Pre-registration with DHMH online • Some private schools have already signed up to be vaccinators • Vaccine will be delivered either through McKesson or the state • Date of delivery as yet unknown • Order date – soon!

  7. Looking at the numbers • 600,000 in Montgomery county are in the target group • 2.8 million in Maryland are in this group • This is a good time to determine numbers in your school for priority/target groups

  8. How much will we get? • This is the great unknown • Orders will be for the one month to begin • The news is saying we could have it by October 5- the reality? unknown

  9. H1N1 Vaccine • NOT experimental • Both inactivated and LAIV will be available • Will likely come in small amounts to start • CAN be administered with seasonal flu vaccine in some cases • If both are inactivated • If one is inactivated NOT if both are LAIV

  10. How many doses? • One dose for everyone 10 and up for H1N1 • One dose for everyone 9 and up for seasonal influenza • The rest is not firm yet – the link is • http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/public/vaccination_qa_pub.htm

  11. Resources • www.dhmh.state.md.us • http://www.marylandfluwatch.org/ • http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/

  12. Questions?

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