Are You There Yet? - No!

We want to call this Flu-oogle to talk about Google's not quite there yet flu shot finder. The problem isn't so much GOOGLE as its the places that actually give out the vaccines. We're "flu policing" again - and really we don't want to. But with the World Health Organization's report on Women's health, this being Veterans Day, and Aunt Pearlie's sister whom we called "Daughter" was an honored Army servicewoman we couldn't ignore this story. Google has a flu shot finder for the country that will eventually be available through the flu.gov site of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The problem with the GOOGLE or Flu-OOGLE if you will isn't the OOGLE it's the "G" the governments with which they have to get the information. It's as inaccurate as the I-phone apps meant to inform. The original information is faulty or rather inaccurate.

The "Flu Shot Finder" only goes to the state's or county's website which you would think would make it more accurate and in a sense that is true. However most of that means that the county "has no public H1N1 or seasonal clinics scheduled." For "non-breeding" women this isn't helpful at all. We're still not there yet! To inquire because of WHO - we wish we could:

"say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, (Yes, sir) however frustrating the hour, it will not be long..." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

DC Department of Health (DOH)

Thursday, November 12 5 pm - 9 pm
Cardozo Senior High School
Ballou Senior High School

"To say that the future will be different from the present and past may be hopelessly self-evident. I must observe regretfully, however, that in politics it can be heresy. It can be denounced as radicalism or branded as subversion. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the security of a comfortable past, which in fact, never existed. It hardly seems necessary to point out in the United States, of all places, that change, although it involves risk, is the law of life." - Robert F. Kennedy

Saturday, November 14
8 am - 1 pm
Eliot-Hine Middle School
Kelly Miller Middle School
Hardy Middle School

MD Calvert County
November 14, 2009
H1N1 (Swine) Flu Vaccination Clinic
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Calvert Fairgrounds

Cecil County
At this time, the Cecil County Health Department has no public H1N1 or seasonal clinics scheduled.

"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated." - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Charles County
Vaccine will be provided from 3:00pm to 7:00pm (or until the supply of vaccine is gone) ** Cars of clinic attendees will not be permitted in the parking lot until all school buses depart at 2:45
November 12 - Thursday **4:30 to 7 pm Picowaxen Elementary School -Priority Only
**New time and location
*** Cars of clinic attendees will not be permitted in the parking lot until all school buses depart at 3:45.
November 16 - Monday 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm Indian Head Pavillion
November 18 - Wednesday 9:00 am to 7:00 pm Department of Health Offices
November 24 - Tuesday 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm Charles County Government Center

Dorchester County
Updated 11/6/09
SEASONAL FLU INFORMATION: Currently out of vaccine. When additional supplies arrive we will advertise on this site and in local papers.

“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?” - Rabbi Hillel

Frederick County
Community Clinics for Priority Groups- By Appointment Only
Vaccination Date: November 12, 2009, 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The appointment line for the November 12th H1N1 flu clinic is now closed. The Health Department will announce dates for additional clinics in the near future.
If a caller does not receive a call back within 4 hours, all appointments have been scheduled.

"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants." - Barbara Jordan

Baltimore MD
Pre-register for upcoming clinics that will be scheduled this month. If you are in one of the priority groups, complete the online form. Someone will contact your within 10 business days to schedule your appointment(s).
Thursday, November 12 - 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

VA All Counties
Vaccine will be available for the general public at pharmacies, health care provider offices and local health departments in December. We will add clinic dates and times as they become available. Please check back for regular updates.

We only included the more current days, links and locations. We'll try to keep up with the information as it becomes more available. We don't know and aren't being told when everyone will have access to their own protection. It is good to know that this is still fairly early for our health and that the numbers (though not ALL the people are being saved) are starting to shrink especially in our area from epidemic proportions to normal proportions. Unless you're related to the dead or dying. Protect yourself. Don't despair - you are not alone. We are with you. We can and must demand to do better.