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Issue date: 11/13/09 Section: Campus News

Media Credit: Matt Rogers Senior nursing major Kayla Blount gives MaryBeth Brown, a sophomore mass communication major, an H1N1 vaccine this past Tuesday.

Georgia College Student Health Services administered 293 of a shipment of 500 H1N1 vaccines this past Tuesday at no charge to all students who came in.

The vaccines were delivered Nov. 6 in the late afternoon, but due to nursing students being in class on Monday, Tuesday was the best day to give the students the vaccine.

The initial intent was to administer all 500 of the vaccines on Tuesday.

"We'd like to give them all (on Tuesday)," Loper said.

The amount of students who came to for the vaccine fluctuated throughout the day.

"(The students) came in spurts," said Director of Health Student Services Alice Loper. "We didn't know how many (students) we would receive."

The original order of vaccines totaled to 6,000 but only 500 could be offered at this time.

"We don't know how many (of the original amount) we will receive," Loper said.

The remaining 207 vaccines are available at Student Health Services in Beeson Hall and are free to students.

Loper wants to remind students that Health Services does not yet have any of the seasonal flu vaccines, as manufacturers struggle to keep up with the demand for them.

With the uncertainty of how many more vaccines will be delivered to Health Services, there's also uncertainty over whether another vaccine drive will take place.

"It would be great to have another day like this," Loper said. "But I don't know if we will."

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