Free swine flu clinic on tap Saturday morning

For the first time, the vaccine will be available to anyone who wants it.

“We still want the people who are high risk to get it, but anyone can get it,” said Beth Heath, county nurse manager. “Now we can vaccinate anyone.”

Anticipating a crowd, the clinic will have extra staff on hand. There will be six nurses, additional clerks will be present to help ease the flow of people and paperwork, and there will even be people to help manage parking and crowd control.

“I’d really like to see a big response,” Heath said.

Both the H1N1 nasal spray and the H1N1 shots will be available.

“We’re hoping to get lots of children in to be vaccinated,” Heath said. “We’ll see anybody, but we would love to see a lot of children come in and be vaccinated.”

The department expects to be able to process each patient in from 10 to 20 minutes Saturday.