Cole County Health Department will hold its first public flu clinic for the H1N1 vaccine on Saturday, Nov. 7 at the Capital Mall’s community room in Jefferson City from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The clinic will administer the vaccine to the following priority groups:

• Pregnant women
• Household contacts of caregivers of infants under 6 months of age
• Children six months to four years of age
• Children five to 18 years of age with a chronic medical condition

As Cole County gets more doses, additional priority groups will be able to receive the vaccine.

There may be more H1N1 flu clinics with vaccine availability:

• Saturday, Nov. 14, in Wardsville
• Saturday, Nov. 21, in Russellville
• Saturday, Nov. 28, in Jefferson City  

Boone County Health Department will hold H1N1 vaccine clinics starting Monday, Nov. 9. The clinics will be Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The clinics are on a walk-in basis for the following priority groups:

• pregnant women
• children 6 months through 4 years of age
• children 5 through 18 years of age who have chronic medical conditions

These priority groups will receive the injection vaccine because it carries a dead strain of the H1N1 virus, while the nasal spray FluMist carries a live version of the H1N1 virus.