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Teachers left out of flu priority list

As clinics move into schools this week, why aren't teachers getting the shots?

By ALLISON BOURG, Staff Writer
Published 12/02/09

They're surrounded by students and the germs they carry all day long.

But that doesn't put teachers at the front of the line for H1N1 vaccine, even as the county Health Department moved into county high schools yesterday to dole out the latest round of swine flu shots.

"That's the concern we've heard, not only from teachers but from guidance counselors," said Bob Mosier, county schools spokesman.

Teachers and other school workers aren't part of any priority group identified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only members of those have gotten a crack at the vaccine, which...

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