Pregnant women, young children with medical conditions and health care providers who have direct contact with patients will be the first people vaccinated against swine flu in New Hampshire.
Gov. John Lynch and the state’s public health director said Thursday that they expect New Hampshire to receive 190,000 doses of vaccine in early October, followed by another 80,000 a few weeks later. Public Health Director Jose Montero says that will be enough to cover all those most at risk within four to six weeks, and after that, the vaccine will be available to the next level of those at risk: healthy people under age 24, all other health care workers and parents of young children.
The vaccine for the regular seasonal flu already is available.