Flu Clinic Wednesday: Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Livingston hosts a second flu clinic at the Senior/Community Center on Oct. 5.
The second of Livingston’s two flu clinics will take place on Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Town nurses will be inoculating residents, in one shot, against three of the predicted influenza strains. For those thinking of foregoing the shot, here’s a sobering thought: the CDC estimates that between 3,000 and 49,000 deaths are caused or contributed to by the flu every year. The Nursing Department first offers the shot to first responders (police, firefighters, first-aid workers), town employees, people who are homebound, and public school teachers before offering it to the general public. Janet Traettino, nursing supervisor, told Patch that at the recent flu clinic in late September, about 450 people were inoculated. The flu shots are …
desiderata cacoethes
10:53 pm on Monday, October 3, 2011
thanks for this service... My elderly neighbors - a wonderful kind couple - have some interesting theories about the flu shot. Every fall they are urged by their doctors to get the flu/pneumonia shot and every year they refuse and every winter one or both of them falls ill with the flu... There's just no persuading them to get inoculated. Just don't want anything to happen to them when it couldve… more ›