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Guilford to offer more H1N1 doses

Friday, November 6, 2009

(Updated 5:20 am)

By Gerald Witt
Staff Writer

HIGH POINT — Guilford County public health officials told commissioners Thursday they will sponsor an H1N1 flu vaccine clinic Saturday.

Merle Green, director of the county’s Department of Public Health, said the decision was made Thursday afternoon after 6,000 doses of swine flu vaccine became available.

The clinic will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Medlin Center at GTCC, 601 High Point Road, she said.

In keeping with the county’s current H1N1 vaccination priorities, vaccines will be available only for:

children between the ages of 6 months and 18 years old;
college students; and
pregnant women.

Campus access will be restricted to keep people from camping overnight, Green said, and a ticketing system will be used to distribute the inoculations.

“We’re trying not to line up thousands and thousands of people and then turn them away,” Green said.

Contact Gerald Witt at 373-7008 or gerald.witt@news-record.com

MY OLD SCHOOL

County commissioners took their usual meeting on the road to High Point University on Thursday. That gave Commissioner Bruce Davis and Assistant County Manager Sharisse Fuller a chance to tour their alma mater. Davis, Fuller, other commissioners and county staff checked out the facilities, which include game rooms, a steak house, business classrooms with real-time stock tickers, and plenty of groomed grounds. Commissioners even saw a putting green next to a woven hammock.

Minutia
Commissioners accepted a $250,000 settlement in an insurance claim for flood damage to a building after a rainstorm and subsequent flood June 3 in downtown Greensboro.

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