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Swine Flu Clinic Locations

Calhoun County:

9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. today at 2B Hospital Drive, Grantsville.

Call 304-354-6101 for information.

This is the only clinic that will also offer seasonal flu shots, the health department said.

Roane County:

9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday at 200 E. Main St., Spencer.

Call 304-927-1480 for information.

Ritchie County:

9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Friday at the Harrisville Lions Club.

For more information, call 304-643-2917.

Wirt County:

9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Friday at the clinic on Lower Washington Street in Elizabeth.

Call 304-275-3131 for information.

Pleasants County:

9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, at 605 Cherry St., St. Marys.

Wood County:

9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Dils Center on Market Street in Parkersburg.

This clinic is for children from 6 months to 18 years.

Washington County:

2-6 p.m. today at the Health Department, 342 Muskingum Drive, Marietta.

This clinic is for pregnant women only.

Putnam Elementary:

Today and Wednesday, Marietta City Health Department.

This clinic is for students only.

Harmar Elementary:

Thursday and Friday, Marietta City Health Department.

This clinic is for students only.

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PARKERSBURG - Elementary schools throughout Wood County were able provide H1N1 shots to most of the qualified students needing them Monday, although a few came up short, officials said.

Dick Wittberg of the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department said the number of doses delivered to the county as a whole were short by about a third.

"We had to short everybody by about the same amount," he said.

Due to the shortage in doses, the shots provided to Wood County's 19 elementary schools for Monday's clinics were restricted to students ages 9 and under.

Rosemary Scott, school nurse for Jefferson Elementary Center, said the school received about 120 doses Monday, but had 180 students pre-registered for vaccinations. Scott said students who were not registered were turned away, and said officials would hand out information on make-up clinics available next month.

"We are doing the best we can, and we understand parents are anxious to have these vaccinations," she said.

Karen Clark, mother of Jefferson student Caleb Clark, said she hoped the vaccine would give her son a better chance of fighting off illness.

"If they get sick, hopefully it (the shot) will make it a little less," she said. "Better to be safe than sorry."

Mother Melissa Kupfner got the shot for her son, Aaron, but was unable to get shots for her two daughters who did not attend the elementary school.

She got Aaron Kupfner immunized "because of the way it's been spreading and his age, (but) I would have liked to have it done with the older kids," she said.

Wittberg said additional clinics for the elementary school students are planned for Nov. 5 and 6 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. and Nov. 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., all three at the Dils Center on Market Street in Parkersburg. Those students will still be required to get two shots - one initial dose and a booster dose 30 days later.

Clinics for the booster shots are planned for Nov. 30 and for Dec. 1 and 2. Officials hope to begin administering H1N1 vaccine to non-students ages 24 and younger at those clinics.

As Monday's clinic at Jefferson came to a close at 8 p.m., Scott said the process had gone smoothly throughout the day. Due to a number of pre-registrations that did not show and some who were turned away for not meeting the criteria, the clinic was able to vaccinate all of those who qualified and came to the school, she said.

"The parents have been very, very nice and the kids have been great. It's been steady but not hectic," Scott said.

Teresa Bayer, coordinator of health services for Wood County Schools, said the information she received Monday night after the clinics closed matched what Scott reported in most regards. With about half of the county's schools reporting, Bayer said she was aware that a couple - Kanawha and Lubeck - ran out of shots but the others were able to provide shots to all qualified students.

She expects to have a clearer idea of the overall impact of the clinics today after talking with the MOVHD and the rest of the county's schools, she said.

Wittberg said a clinic held Friday for pregnant women and children ages 5 years and younger also ran short of vaccine. The clinic drew hundreds of people who lined up around the block from the Dils Center.

"We had enough for all of the pregnant women and the children ages 4 and 5," he said, but about 50 children ages 3 and younger had to be turned away.