URGENT - H1N1 UPDATE
November 3, 2009
Dear
Parents, Students and Staff:
On Friday, November 6th, we will be vaccinating all students (who
have consents) with the H1N1 flu vaccine.
The Health Department is sending five nurses out to administer the
vaccine.
We have been informed today that it
will not be the
vaccine in shot form, but instead will be the live vaccine via nasal spray.
In addition to informing you of this change, we need to know if this changes
your consent.
In order for your child/ren to be inoculated against the H1N1 virus
this Friday,
we need to have your consent to the live vaccine.
If you have not given your consent but would like or need to amend your earlier
consent, you may give your consent by sending in a note to the office, by
responding to this email, or by coming into the school and resigning a consent
form. Per the Health Department, we
are unable to receive consents verbally.
If we do not hear back from you, even if you have previously consented on the
original vaccine in shot form consent, your child/ren will not be able to be
vaccinated with the H1N1 live vaccine.
If your child has documented health issues (i.e. asthma, heart conditions, lung
conditions, etc., it must be documented on their school application) that state
that they are unable to receive the live virus, they will be able to receive the
original H1N1 vaccine in shot form.
There is a very limited supply of this type of vaccine and the Health Department
has informed us that it will not be made available to any child/ren other than
those with documented health issues, that preclude getting the live vaccine.