Date: 2009-11-09 09:44 Subject: H1N1 incompetence Security: Public Location: In my chair Tags: h1n1, kingston

As of yet, I haven't gotten my H1N1 flu shot.  This bothers me.

More specifically, what bothers me is why I haven't gotten my shot yet.  Now, I know the news has reported that there has been a massive shortfall of vaccinations, which during a pandemic is shocking in and of itself, but that's not what I'm going to take issue with.  And, with a shortfall where instead of a million flu shots being delivered to Ontario there were instead around 150,000, the critical cases taking priority makes perfect sense.  Again, that's not what I'm taking issue with.

I live in Kingston Ontario, a city with a population of around 120,000.  It's a relatively large city for its population - it can easily take 45 minutes to drive across it on city streets (the city alone is 450 square kilometres, not counting the outlying regions).  So, how many H1N1 clinics are set up for early delivery to priority patients?

One.

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