Flu Shots Friday in Blanco County - Community News - Blanco County News

By George Barnette

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 • Posted October 28, 2008

“Nothing to it,” said Tom Mills, one of the Blanco County Disaster Response Group volunteers who will be helping with the flu shot clinic Friday. As a career US Navy corpsman, Tom has given and received his share of inoculations; he pronounced Dorothy Dawson, of the Department of State Health Services in Marble Falls, a pro with the needle. Dawson will be one of the “shooters” at the Blanco County flu shot clinic Friday, the 7th, at the First United Methodist Church in Johnson City. The $10 vaccinations will be offered from 10:30 to 1:30. Members of the Blanco County Disaster Response Group will help with paperwork, practicing what they learned last summer about assisting in such clinics in case of a real health emergency.

Friday, November 7, is your chance to beat the flu this season!

That’s when the Texas Department of State Health Services teams with the Blanco County Disaster Response Group to offer flu shots in the Activity Building of the First United Methodist Church in Johnson City.

The clinic will be open from 10:30am to 1:30pm, but no one in line will be turned away at closing time.

The flu vaccine will cost $10 per dose, and Medicare patients can receive theirs free and file their claim on the spot.

The state team came to Blanco County last summer to train the Disaster Response Group in how to help in a shot clinic in case of a health emergency. There’s no emergency now, of course, but it will be a training opportunity for the Blanco group to practice what they learned about helping move people through an inoculation line smoothly.

The local response group will help with paperwork and directions, but the shots themselves will be administered by health professionals.

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