The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department will provide free flu vaccines for children uninsured adults Wednesday.
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The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department will provide free flu vaccines for children uninsured adults Wednesday.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department will provide free flu vaccines for children uninsured adults Wednesday.
Read more : http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street/2013/01/22/free-flu-shot-clinic-in-tacoma-wednesday/
Four-year-old Sarahi Larios cried in her mom’s lap when she received the flu vaccine Wednesday night in Tacoma. Alma Alvarado brought Sarahi and her other daughter, Alejandra Larios, 17, to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department for free flu vaccines to protect all of them during a severe flu season.
UPDATE: The address of the free clinic is now 316 N. L St., the Mary Bridge Woman Infants and Children (WIC) building.
Tri-City health officials say flu season has kicked into high gear locally, but the peak for the respiratory virus is yet to come.
Dr. Amy Person, health officer for the Benton Franklin Health District, told the bicounty health board Wednesday that the H3N2 strain of influenza seen this year is one associated with more severe illness, but is a strain included in this year's vaccine.
"We are trying to get as many people immunized as possible," Person said.
The flu season is hitting communities across the United States hard. Some states, like Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, are reporting deaths related to the flu in the double digits.
Flu season might come early to the South Sound this year.
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