Another city student gets flu vaccine by mistake: Dept. of Ed. officials

NYdailynews ^ | Oct 31, 2009 | RACHEL MONAHAN AND KERRY WILLS

[Jet Jaguar]

Officials admitted on Friday that a third student was mistakenly given the swine flu vaccine - an error the school nurses union blamed on the city.

"Nurses are not getting the support they need," said Judith Arroyo, president of Local 436, District Council 37, adding that the union had warned of problems.

"We don't like it when we're right, because usually when we're right someone does get hurt somewhere along the way."

City officials countered that nurses have received "excellent support."

"The department has been doing a tremendous job," said Dr. Jane Zucker, assistant commissioner of immunization. "Twenty-five hundred have already been vaccinated."

Three children have received the H1N1 vaccine without parental permission - including a kid at Public School 8 on Staten Island - since the in-school program began.

City officials recommend all students get the vaccine since swine flu has proved particularly deadly for young people. The feds yesterday announced the deaths of 19 more children nationwide - the largest increase in a single week since the epidemic began.

[Cvengr]

"We don't like it when we're right, because usually when we're right someone does get hurt somewhere along the way."

This would nicely explain the voting choices of NYers after Pres Clinton left office.

[SamuraiScot]

a third student was mistakenly given the swine flu vaccine - an error the school nurses union blamed on the city.

How do you give someone a shot with a hypodermic needle by accident? Just accidentally stab him in the hallway as he's walking by? I know the staff at City high schools are very busy and distracted these days, but really . . .

[Don Corleone]

Officials admitted on Friday that a third student was mistakenly given the swine flu vaccine - an error the school nurses union blamed on the city.

Well, that's British Rail for you.

[Suz in AZ]

Moms may need to write on their children’s arms with a black sharpie, “NO SHOT”.

[metmom]

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[Salvation]

**The feds yesterday announced the deaths of 19 more children nationwide - the largest increase in a single week since the epidemic began.**

Not good news at all.