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[Star Tribune, Jan. 3, 2010] The pandemic of 2009 wasn’t as bad as health officials feared, but it hit the young harder and may be only in a lull. On Kris Ehresmann’s 2009 calendar, April 23 is marked with two events: “Get haircut. Pandemic begins.” That was the day Ehresmann, head of Minnesota’s state vaccine [...]

[Northfield News, Dec. 22, 2009] Local health care providers are opening their H1N1 vaccine supplies to the general population following new recommendations from the state. Northfield’s Allina Medical Clinic will offer the vaccine to the public, Clinic Manager Barb Barlau said, as will the Northfield Hospital and Clinics, said spokesman Scott Richardson on Tuesday. Read [...]

[Northfield News, Dec. 18, 2009] Local health officials said a recalled batch of H1N1 vaccinations for children was not distributed in Northfield. The 800,000 pediatric immunization doses recalled by manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur were found through testing to lose potency in storage, but were not distributed to the Northfield Hospital and Clinics or Allina Medical Clinic [...]

[Allina Newsroom, Dec. 17, 2009] Allina clinics, including Aspen Medical Group, Quello Clinic and Allina Medical Clinic, are now making H1N1 flu vaccine available to all its patients provided that individual clinics have adequate supply of H1N1 vaccine on hand.

[KARE11, Dec. 16, 2009] The number of H1N1 cases in Minnesota may continue to drop, but experts still recommend people exercise caution over the holidays. “If you have respiratory symptoms — cough, sore throat, a temperature of over 101 – you ought to be distancing yourself from everyone, particularly people who are vulnerable,” said Dr. Frank [...]

[Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dec. 6, 2009] In a small fraction of children and young adults, the H1N1 virus is unexpectedly deadly. For unknown reasons some perfectly healthy patients end up drowning in their own fluids. Kim Lange’s son was still coherent when the doctor said it was time to put him on a ventilator. He [...]

[KARE11 News, Nov. 24, 2009] It’s as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey—the travel. But this year’s trip seems to pack an extra punch: the threat of picking up H1N1 on board a crowded plane. “A sick person should not be around other people,” said Dr. Frank Rhame, an Infectious Disease Expert with [...]

[Pioneer press, Nov. 25, 2009] A continued decrease in reported H1N1 flu cases and an increase in vaccine stores will allow most people up to 24 years old to qualify for the vaccine, state health officials said Tuesday. The new vaccination guidelines will allow an estimated 2.7 million Minnesotan to qualify for the vaccine, compared [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, Nov. 17, 2009] Most Minnesota counties now have enough doses to begin offering very limited public vaccination clinics targeting kids age nine and younger. For most parents, these will be the first openly publicized H1N1 clinics since supplies of the vaccine started trickling in to the state more than a month ago. [...]

[The Annandale Advocate, Nov. 17, 2009] The long awaited H1N1 vaccine has arrived in Minnesota’s Wright County clinics, but it’s not available to everyone. All Allina clinics, including Annandale, have a limited supply of H1N1 vaccine for pregnant women, children 6 months through 4 years, and people ages 5 to 18 who have compromised conditions, [...]

[New Ulm Journal, Nov. 9, 2009] New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC) will conduct an H1N1 flu vaccine clinic on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 at 5 p.m. The clinic will go until 8 p.m. or until the supply of vaccine has been exhausted. The clinic will be held in the third floor hospital auditorium. Please use [...]

[Star Tribune, Nov. 7, 2009] For months, travelers have been zooming through the skies, locked into a tight space with strangers, without benefit of an H1N1 vaccination. That situation probably won’t change before Thanksgiving, historically the busiest travel season of the year. The Minnesota Department of Health reports that the majority of doses of the [...]