About an hour after I posted my blog entry yesterday, I received a phone call from Tricia Anglin, Nursing Director for the Butler County Health Department.
She said the department has approved all local doctors offices that ordered the Swine Flu Vaccine to distribute it.
According to Ms. Anglin, the department has decided not to distribute vaccines from the county's supply to the offices because the process the county would have to go through to do this would be too rigorous and require man power the county doesn' t have.
She said that she was very frustrated with the way the CDC has decided to distribute the vaccine. She said the Butler County Health Department had planned on having local partners (doctor's offices).
I could tell she was pretty annoyed talking to me so I didn't push further. From what I gather, the county had assumed the local doctors offices would receive vaccines from the CDC or the manufacturer. I don't think they planned on being in responsible for distributing hundreds of vaccines to hundreds of offices.
Working in the pharmaceutical industry, I can appreciate her perspective. There is all sorts of red tape, regulations, and documentation that is required when working with medication and the government.
So basically, it is what it is. I highly doubt that any Swine Flu vaccines will make it into the private practices.
Looking super forward to standing in a ridiculous line for the kids boosters.
I was in line (Columbus Ohio) for about 3.5 hours last week. I worked the system a little though. Instead of forcing the kiddies to wait in a 2x2 foot area while driving myself insane I teamed with my wife. Once I was close enough to the "passage of pokery" or "shot alley" I sent her a text to bring them down. In matter of 15 minutes we were finished. It was nice because I got to catch up on some reading.
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