KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | More H1N1 vaccines arrive for Benton and Franklin counties

More H1N1 vaccines arrive for Benton and Franklin counties

Posted: Updated:

KENNEWICK, Wash.--  Right now the Health District is keeping the vaccines at their Kennewick office under lock and key, but very soon they will go to area hospitals to complete the vaccination of our health workers.

The Health District got enough of the vaccines for over two thousand shots and over a thousand of the nasal sprays covering health workers. Leftovers will go to pediatricians and obgyns. Today's shipment is the second shipment for the District; they received the first last week and they expect the third shipment will finally be the one for young people and pregnant women.

"And we'll look at how much arrives in that and then give that also to the private providers the doctors offices in the community as well," says Heather Hill of the Benton Franklin Health District. "Hopefully be the end of this week or early next week well have doses in the doctors offices so that they can get it to their clients."

And the vaccines can't arrive soon enough. No deaths so far in Benton or Franklin counties; but, H1N1 killed two in Umatilla county last week.

So those at risk will have vaccines as early as this week. For the rest of us-- we still have to wait until at least the end of the month.