The Medical Officer of Health in Northumberland County is blaming uncertainties surrounding a novel strain of flu for making it difficult to get the H1N1 vaccine..
Doctor Lynn Noseworthy told the Brighton Rotary Club there were many uncertainties surrounding this flu season, and it wasn’t known when the seasonal flu and H-1-N-1 would arrive.
She said guesswork surrounding which type of flu might strike, and when, led to a confused rollout of the various vaccines.
Twenty-thousand doses of the H-1-N-1 vaccine have been given at 30 clinics run by the health unit in Northumberland and Haliburton Counties and in the City of Kawartha Lakes.
