State Starts Giving Out Flu Shots
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The state is distributing about 60,000
doses of flu vaccine through Arkansas` 75 counties today.
People lined up by the hundreds at the state fairgrounds and
dozens of other sites across Arkansas for what could be their only
chance for a flu shot this year.
Many of the would-be recipients were in the elderly high-risk
group and got in line an hour or more early. They had already
waited since last month, when the state Health Department announced
the special distribution day.
Long lines at processing tables kept many of the early arrivals
waiting at least another hour after the doors opened. Maurine Wise
of North Little Rock still had her "I Voted" sticker on from
yesterday.
The 87-year-old says she waited longer for the shot than she did
to cast her ballot.
