With the first free clinics of the season now being offered, the flu vaccine should be much more effective than a year ago. An unexpected strain didn’t emerge until after last year’s vaccine had already been manufactured. Nevada County Public Health Officer Kenneth Cutler says it was only around 13-percent effective, initially…
Vaccines are normally 50 to 60-percent effective. Cutler says last year was a particularly bad flu season for local residents over 65 years old, as well as around the country…
Adults over 65 normally account for about 61-percent of reported influenza hospitalizations each year, the highest rate of any age group. Starting Thursday, and for the second and fourth Thursdays of the month, there is a free clinic at the Grass Valley Veterans Building, from 1 to 4pm. There is also a free clinic Saturday, for people 4 years and older, at Twin Cities Church on Rough and Ready Highway in Grass Valley, from 10am to 2pm. The Health Department also offers them every third Thursday of the month, for those 19 years and older, also from 10am to 2pm.
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