Trumbull Health Department sets H1N1-vaccine clinics at 3 schools

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — The Trumbull County Health Department received a shipment of 3,100 H1N1-flu vaccines this week and will begin vaccination clinics at three Trumbull County schools Thursday, but it may take until late December before the clinics are finished.

Selene Layton, director of nursing for the health department, said the Fairhaven School in Niles, Seaborn Elementary in Weathersfield and the kindergarten through fourth-grade students at Southington Elementary School will get the first three vaccination clinics.

Layton said she is scheduling the school-based vaccination clinics now and will focus on school buildings containing the youngest children first. It may take about a month to get finished with those children. The middle school and high school students would follow.

Permission forms sent to schools indicate that around half the students are planning to receive the free vaccinations at their school, Layton said.

So far, only one private school, Victory Christian in Niles, has asked to have a vaccination clinic.

The county health department, however, will have a vaccination clinic from 1 to 6 p.m. Monday at the health department, 176 Chestnut St. N.E. for people in these groups — pregnant women; caregivers of infants under 6 months of age; anyone 6 months to 24; anyone 25 to 64 years of age with a chronic illness; and medical workers who provide direct care.

The same type of public vaccination clinic also is planned at the health department 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 14.