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Nov 3, 2009 4:28 pm US/Central
Dallas County Ready For Swine Flu Clinic
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Spencer Whatcott (left) pulls away after a nurse gives a nasal spray of the H1N1 vaccine while his father Cameron (right) hold him at the Utah County Health Department Oct. 27, 2009 in Provo, Utah.
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The Dallas County Health Department is ready for its first swine flu vaccine clinic.
Thousands who need the vaccine will be able to get it, but there are still some rules.
The county health department has 11,000 doses of the vaccine.
County health workers are ready to take up to 500 people an hour. But not just anyone can show up and get a vaccination.
Wednesday's clinic is intended for low-income, uninsured residents of Dallas County and those who fall into certain high-risk categories: pregnant women, people who care for infants, healthcare workers, children from six months to 24 years old, and people ages 25 to 64 with underlying health conditions.
The county health department is stressing that the clinic is for the uninsured. "I want to be very clear on this," said Zachary Thompson, director of the Dallas County health department. "This is not Dallas County's rule on the uninsured, this is what the state of Texas has told us. We have to administer vaccine to the uninsured as a safety net."
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