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FluMist Vaccine To Be Offered In Escambia Schools
October 27, 2015
The FluMist vaccine will soon be offered in Escambia County Schools. beginning with several in the North Escambia area.
Students will bring home a permission slip, and parents should receive an automated phone call in the coming weeks. This is the second year the vaccine is being made available.
The FluMist vaccine will be available at no out of pocket expense to parents, but parents will be asked to provide insurance information to help offset the cost. But students without health coverage will still receive the vaccine at no cost.
“Last year the FluMist program was offered to the school district by Healthy Schools and over 5,000 students were vaccinated against the flu using the FlueMist product,” explained Martha Hanna, ECSD Health Services coordinator. “It is hard for us to measure the effect this had, but we are confident that it helped save some students from getting the flu, or at least helped reduce the severity of their case. We hope to see even more families sign their children up to participate this year.”
The FluMist vaccine will be administered November 9 to November 19, with Northview High, Bratt Elementary, Ernest Ward Middle, Molino Park Elementary and Jim Allen Elementary scheduled for the first round of vaccinations on November 9.
For more information, visit http://escambiaschools.net/health_services or call your child’s school.
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4 Responses to “FluMist Vaccine To Be Offered In Escambia Schools”
I’m so glad they are doing this again this year!
Thank you northescambia for helping to get the word out about the Flumist program.
Bob C. – Memory lane…. when I was about ten we transferred to So. Fla where my dada ran a USMC Reserve Training Center. They had a doctor assigned to them and for awhile it seemed that every time we road along with my mom to go pick up our dad from work we got stuck! We got all of our shots up-to-date…. but soon we would enter the building with our hands covering the top of our arms…. LOL. Later, it was when I went through OCS and we had to line up by company and then in order based on the last two digits of our Social Security numbers…. and lucky me 06… I always got to go first!!!!
So happy these kids can be protected with one less needle!
Bob C. – right, and remember the Tuberculosis test? The 7 little dots on the arm?
Dusting off the old memory….
Recalling when was in elementary school in the early 1950’s the health dept would come to school.
Doctors in long white coats, nurses in their white and starched uniforms and caps and they’d set up tables in the main hallway.
On those tables they had alcohol, cotton swabs, stainless steel containers with the needles in alcohol, glass syringes and bottle upon bottle of medicines to be injected and we’d be lined up at one end and marched to the other getting whatever shots were needed. Nobody fussed or complained that I remember.
At the end we were given a cube of sugar with a greenish-blue dot on it which was the Polio vaccine.
Seemed to be a good way to make sure we got vaccinated against the bad stuff out there.
Parents, Health Dept, Schools all working together for a stronger healthier USA.