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Where to get a H1N1 vaccination shot? Who really has them in stock?

Where to get one? There are a lot of “vaccine locators” out there.  You put in your zip code- and voila! it tells you what location has a stock of shots. Sounds great- if that were true. Most of the “vaccine locators” are giving old information, out of date clinics and clinics that don’t have the shots.  The best locator out there is this one from NYC. gov. It gives you the closest locations. However, when I called the first 3 on my list, none of them had the shot. No surprise, right? All of them said “next week, next week.”

Who really has them in stock? You really just need to call around. I would start with Walgreens and Duane Reade stores- they seem to be getting them ahead of the doctors. School vaccinations will begin soon.  “New York City’s health commissioner said today that the city is proceeding with plans to vaccinate schoolchildren against H1N1 flu, according to the New York Times. Dr. Thomas Farley said, “We have 40,000 doses set aside for the first wave of schools, which we feel should be adequate.” Free vaccinations will start tomorrow at 125 small public elementary schools. Last week the city had about 300,000 of the 380,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine it had ordered.” [Oct 27 New York Times story]

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