H1N1 Clinics in Milton

Its hard to find anyone who hasnt experienced the “bug” or knows of someone who has.  Anthony’s class of 26 was reduced to 11 at one point in time, with Anthony having to take a couple of days off as well.  Thankfully he didnt get hit too hard, but there were some children off for over a week.  From what we hear at some of the schools, its beginning to subside and the kids are back at school. 

With all of this sickness going on, is it H1N1 or is it just the flu, there are a lot of questions going around and to say people are confused would be an understatement.

I dont want to get into the politics of “should you” or “shouldnt you” get the shot but theres always a lot of questions on where do you go to get it if you want.

The following is from the Region of Halton’s website with the dates and time for clinics in our region, and more specifically Milton residents.  As a reminder, these clinics for the time being are for the priority group which include:

Priority groups are determined by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and include:

• People with chronic medical conditions, under age 65, such as:
  • heart, lung and kidney disease
  • illness or treatments that might affect the immune system (diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS etc)
  • certain blood disorders such as anemia
  • long term aspirin therapy in children under 18 years of age
  • severe obesity
• Pregnant women
• Healthy children from 6 months – under 5 years of age
• Health care workers involved in pandemic response or the delivery of essential health care services
• Household contacts and care providers of people at high risk of complications who cannot be immunized, such as for infants under 6 months of age or those who may not respond to vaccines
• People residing in remote and isolated settings or communities

In addition, the following groups are also being offered H1N1 flu shots now :

• First responders (police and firefighters)
• Frontline institutional correctional workers
• Adults 65 years and older who reside in long-term care homes or complex continuing care units.

To avoide overcrowding at these clinics they ask that if you are not in that priority group, you wait until everyone ha received their shots that want them.

Here are the details for Milton

Here is the link for the clinics info from the Region Of Halton.