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Schools Set To Become Mass Swine Flu Vaccination Clinics
"Highly likely" that large scale operations
will be implemented in US and UK
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Schools in both the US and the UK are set to serve as mass vaccination
sites in the Autumn as government officials on both sides of
the Atlantic consider plans that could see a push to inoculate
every child in both countries against swine flu.
In the US, Federal officials representing Health
and Human Services, the Department of Education and the Department
of Homeland Security have briefed twelve heads of education
associations, unions and child care providers on plans to implement
mass vaccination in schools.
New York State United Teachers president Dick
Iannuzzi, who was present at the briefing, told USA
Today that it is "highly likely" that
schools will be used for student vaccinations.
"That would be the optimum place to have
that happen," he said, noting that there was "consensus
in the room" about the wisdom of using schools as vaccination
sites.
Federal officials put "a much stronger emphasis —
stronger than I've heard in years" — on encouraging
school districts and local health departments to open schools
as immunization centers, said Amy Garcia, executive director
of the National Association of School Nurses.
Meanwhile, government ministers in the UK are considering plans
to place
vaccination posts in every school in the country
in what would amount to the biggest mass immunisation in 45
years.
All 8.5 million pupils aged five to 16, could be given the
injections at the UK's 33,700 schools, the largest vaccination
programme since the 1964 operation against smallpox.
The Department of Health has stated that no decision has yet
been made on the programme and that parents would need to give
permission for their child to be vaccinated.
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Calls for increased vaccination have been spurred
by the ongoing H1N1 outbreak, which has also seen new regulations
put in place to provide pharmaceutical companies with blanket
immunity from lawsuits.
"Vaccine makers and federal officials will
be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine,
under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services
Kathleen Sebelius," reported
the Associated Press last month.
Although no formal announcement has yet been made,
it has been suggested by health authorities in the US and the
UK that the upcoming mass public vaccination program against
H1N1 will
be mandatory.
As reported
by CNS News last month, a health-care reform bill
approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension
Committee called The Affordable Health Choices Act, will fund
the creation of state “intervention” teams that
will carry out home visits in order to check that both children
and adults have been vaccinated and also provide “provision
of immunizations”.
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