COTTONWOOD -- The Yavapai County Community Health Services has canceled an H1N1 flu vaccine clinic scheduled for Mingus Union High School on Nov. 5. That notification followed a press release Friday giving notice that a public flu shot clinic for H1N1 was canceled at the County Building on Oct. 31.
Other H1N1 vaccine clinics for area elementary schools are, as of noon Friday, still scheduled as planned.
MUHS Principal Marc Cooper sent home a letter to parents Thursday night stating that, due to a lack of vaccine, the Yavapai County Health Department has cancelled all high school vaccination clinics. Cooper urged parents and students to save their vaccination consent forms. It is expected that the vaccination clinics will be rescheduled when enough vaccine becomes available.
As of noon Friday, the scheduled H1N1 clinics at area elementary and middle schools are still scheduled.
Kathleen Fleenor, superintendent of Clarkdale-Jerome School, notified The Verde Independent early Friday that she had received an e-mail informing her that the high school clinics were cancelled. "As of yesterday," Fleenor said in her e-mail, "we are still on track for Nov. 5."
A school secretary at Cottonwood Elementary School said Friday morning that all of the scheduled flu vaccination clinics at all five of the Cottonwood-Oak Creek District campuses were still on as planned.
Those district clinics are scheduled for Tavasci Elementary, Nov. 3; Cottonwood Elementary and Cottonwood Middle schools, Nov. 6; Oak Creek School, Nov. 12; and Dr. Daniel Bright School, Nov. 13.
