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Show FARMINGTON Davis County Health Department officials announced Wednesday Wednes-day they will be unable to provide flu. vaccine at tre courthouse clinic or in local senior citizen's centers due to a cutback in shipments of the vaccine into the state. ACCORDING TO Dolleen Jewett. county nursing supervisor, super-visor, the state cannot get lull shipments of the vaccine because be-cause the company supplying the material has lost a portion of the liquid for unknown reasons. She said (here won't be enough vaccine to supply the courthouse clinic or the senior citizen centers, as originally planned. She did say, however, howev-er, lhat the remaining portion of the vaccine will be distributed distri-buted to the nursing homes "for those who need it most." namely patients w hose medical medic-al condition requires immunization. immuni-zation. THE HEALTH department last week announced a plan to get elderly and high risk residents resi-dents to seek out flu vaccinations. vaccina-tions. Under the state plan, the state provides the vaccine, while the county officials im plement the immunization program. The state health officials, however, in a message to the participating counly governments, govern-ments, made it clear thai the vaccine supply will be much lower than expected. This is the second distribution company com-pany the slate has worked with to obtain the vaccine. 1 he first company, according to Mrs. Jew ell . ran into similar complications. compli-cations. SHE SAID senior citicn center cootilinalot s arc wotk-mg wotk-mg on a plan to gel the ,m mc from other soun.es If they succeed. I he D.n is ( dunt v Health Dt parlriK nt has apeed to administer Ihe mm. iilatiors Mrs. Jc w clt said lh( re will be v ae i me a'. ,n!at le. 1" lit onl , on a 1 1 rn i1 e 1 Kr-r-.. arid nr,! if 1 he patients show a Inch ri'k tendency toward Ihe disca-.c Otherwise, the ae t me will le distributed, as planned, lo some area nursing horncs wheretheelbetsof the dr.e.re riui'ht senoir ly afleet eld' tlv. or mfirmed patients NO Ml VI ION "was made as In w he the r or not the slate h.is other plans for o( taming the . accinc. mdm |