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Update: November 6, 2009
With more H1N1 vaccine now becoming available, Johns Hopkins has moved to the second phase of its plan for vaccinating students. That means that students in the two highest-priority categories are now eligible to receive H1N1 shots. You are now eligible to be vaccinated if you:
1) are otherwise eligible to be seen and treated by
the Student Health and Wellness Center, that is,
you are an undergraduate or graduate student
enrolled in the full-time programs of the Krieger
School of Arts and Sciences or Whiting School of
Engineering,
AND
2) are less than age 64 with:
-- diabetes, or
-- chronic cardiovascular disease (not high blood
pressure), or
-- neurologic disease (such as a seizure disorder
or neuromuscular problems).
Note: We are out of seasonal flu vaccine and do not
anticipate getting more. This will not prevent you
from having H1N1 if you are eligible to receive it.
October
Dear Students:
Last week, you received a message from Provost Minor announcing the plan adopted by Johns Hopkins for administering H1N1 vaccine to students, faculty, staff and patients.
In summary, the plan recognizes that, because at first there will be relatively few doses of H1N1 vaccine available to Johns Hopkins, we must reserve those limited early supplies for certain high-priority recipients, including high-risk patients, healthcare professionals working in high-risk settings and high-risk students.
The Student Health and Wellness Center at Homewood has now received its first doses of injectable vaccine. We are prepared to start administering vaccine shots in accordance with the priorities set in the Johns Hopkins plan.
That means that vaccine will now be administered to students who:
1) are otherwise eligible to be seen and treated by the Student
Health and Wellness Center, that is, who are undergraduate and
graduate students enrolled in the full-time programs of the Krieger
School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering.
2) are either
--pregnant,
--are 18 or younger and have either asthma or who are taking
medications that suppress their immune systems.
AND
3) have already received or are prepared to simultaneously receive
the seasonal flu vaccine.
If you meet all three conditions, you can receive vaccine by calling the Student Health and Wellness Center at 410-516-8270 to schedule an appointment.
Once this group has been offered vaccination, we will next offer vaccination to students who meet conditions 1 and 3 and who are aged 18 and younger with conditions such as diabetes, heart disease or neurologic disorders.
If you do not qualify for vaccination in these first two rounds, please stand by and pay attention to future announcements. You will be notified when more H1N1 vaccine doses arrive and students in lower-priority groups become eligible.
A brief word about the third qualifying condition: Under the Johns Hopkins vaccination plan, people who seek H1N1 vaccination as a member of a high-priority group must, in order to qualify, be vaccinated against seasonal flu as well if seasonal flu vaccine is still available. This is a requirement recommended by the public health and bioethics experts who advised Johns Hopkins in devising the plan. The requirement will remain in effect for high-priority groups in the Homewood student body until the Student Health and Wellness Center has exhausted its supply of season flu vaccine. The basis for the requirement is that someone who claims priority immunization against H1N1, ahead of other potential recipients, should be protected as well against seasonal flu, which has as much potential as H1N1 to cause serious problems for at-risk patients.
You can learn more about the Johns Hopkins H1N1 vaccination policy and its underlying rationale at:
The entire vaccination protocol document is linked to that page.
Whether or not you are in a high-risk group, I urge you to get the seasonal flu vaccine as soon as possible. Public health authorities recommend that you get both the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines this year. A limited amount of seasonal flu vaccine is still available at the Student Health and Wellness Center; call 410-516-8270 to schedule an appointment. Because many seasonal influenza vaccine manufacturers are concentrating on production of the H1N1 vaccine, shortages of seasonal flu vaccine are now being widely reported.
H1N1 flu vaccine will be free to eligible students. I do want to remind you, however, that there is a $15 fee for the seasonal flu vaccine ($8 for students with the Johns Hopkins student insurance plan).
Sincerely,
Alain Joffe, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Student Health and Wellness Center
