More long lines expected as clinic for flu shots continues

Stephen Curran

Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004 | 9:45 a.m.

Representatives from the Clark County Health District expect crowds at today's flu vaccine clinic to mirror those seen Tuesday.

The Health District on Tuesday administered more than 3,200 flu shots at the clinic, beginning at 8 a.m. and running until 4:30 p.m., Jennifer Sizemore, a spokeswoman for the district, said.

The crowd, which at times wrapped around the Health District's sprawling facility on Shadow Lane off Charleston Boulevard in western Las Vegas, was slightly larger than the roughly 2,500 people the county agency had expected. That number had been reached by 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sizemore said.

The long lines meant waits to get inside the clinic reached up to two hours, at which time the temperatures dipped into the low 30s, she said.

Nurses and assistants for the Health District patrolled the line and set aside space inside for particularly sensitive patients, Sizemore said.

Meetings were held throughout the day to address glitches that came up, she said, although today's clinic was expected to run much the same.

"For the most part, anything that was a glitch was smoothed out," Sizemore said.

The Health District recently received a 10,000-shot allocation of flu vaccine from the state Health Division, she said. Similar clinics are scheduled today and Thursday until the agencies run out of vaccine. The shots will be administered at the Clark County Health District, 625 Shadow Lane near Charleston and Rancho boulevards, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For more information about the Health District's flu clinic, call (702) 385-4636.