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View Poll Results: Will you be getting the H1N1 Flu Shot?
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Yes, right away
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Yes, but not right away
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No, for medical reasons I cannot get flu shots
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No. (any other reason)
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10-27-2009, 12:24 PM
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#321
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
A lot of rural areas probably aren't even hooked up yet.
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No they are good to go. There is a schedule up for all rural areas on that link that Hesla posted earlier.
Here it is again...
http://www4.albertahealthservices.ca/Immunization/
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10-27-2009, 12:29 PM
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#322
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
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It must be nice to live in a province that knows what it is doing. I live in Prince George, and was told today that I'd have to wait at LEAST another week before I can even know when it will be available.
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10-27-2009, 12:56 PM
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#323
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Chick Magnet
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It must be nice to live in a province that knows what it is doing. I live in Prince George, and was told today that I'd have to wait at LEAST another week before I can even know when it will be available.
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Ughh... The four to eight hour waits would beg to differ. But, that said, at least it's somewhat available, that part I agree.
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10-27-2009, 01:09 PM
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#324
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Franchise Player
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According to a recent CBC tweet:
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Using Mon's stats & current hours at 4 clinics, it will take AB Health til March 12, 2010 to vaccinate 1.1 million Calgarians
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10-27-2009, 01:10 PM
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#325
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Wookie
Ughh... The four to eight hour waits would beg to differ. But, that said, at least it's somewhat available, that part I agree.
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I looked it up on the government website, and it looks like the earliest immunizations for my area are November 2nd, but an ordinary healthly person will have to wait until November 16th... at the earliest.
http://www.northernhealth.ca/Your_He...rgeclinics.asp
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Last edited by FlamesAddiction; 10-27-2009 at 01:18 PM.
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10-27-2009, 01:25 PM
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#326
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Calgary,ab
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10-27-2009, 01:30 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Calgary,ab
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Originally Posted by photon
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Awesome video but it scares me to death!
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10-27-2009, 01:34 PM
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#328
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One of the Nine
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Originally Posted by fredr123
According to a recent CBC tweet:
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Good old, dependable CBC. Always finding a way to make bad news sound even worse.
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10-27-2009, 01:38 PM
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#329
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Scoring Winger
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Well, I got both the H1N1 and the standard yesterday at the NE clinic. We went first thing and we were in and out in just over 2 hours. Our family is 5 and the time with the nurse was quite long as a result. Total wait was about 1 hour 20 mins... Hence wanting to get there early.
The H1N1 made all of our arms a lot more sore than the regular.... and we are all bagged today from the immune hit... My 6 year old had some diarrhea and a stomach ache too...
All in all not as bad as getting severely sick from H1N1. The regular flu shot is a crap shoot. Sometimes it works sometimes not and sometimes we get one and sometimes not. BUT H1N1 is specifically targeted to that flu so well worth it IMO.
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10-27-2009, 01:43 PM
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#330
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Willi Plett
Well, I got both the H1N1 and the standard yesterday at the NE clinic. We went first thing and we were in and out in just over 2 hours. Our family is 5 and the time with the nurse was quite long as a result. Total wait was about 1 hour 20 mins... Hence wanting to get there early.
The H1N1 made all of our arms a lot more sore than the regular.... and we are all bagged today from the immune hit... My 6 year old had some diarrhea and a stomach ache too...
All in all not as bad as getting severely sick from H1N1. The regular flu shot is a crap shoot. Sometimes it works sometimes not and sometimes we get one and sometimes not. BUT H1N1 is specifically targeted to that flu so well worth it IMO.
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I wonder if it's because if the combination of 2 shots? We had just the H1N1 yesterday and we (2 kids and wife) all just have the sore arm.
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10-27-2009, 01:44 PM
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#331
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by photon
And not all vaccines contain dead viruses.. some vaccines only contain proteins from the virus, or proteins shaped like parts of the virus. Or vaccines against the toxic products of some pathogens by using deactivated toxic products rather than vaccinating against the pathogen itself.
Getting a vaccine is like adding a key to the key ring of virus locks the immune system can unlock. Getting a new key doesn't weaken the system.
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Well getting a vaccine does add stress to the immune system. It essentially forces the body to react as if it is sick. The system is a finite system that can only work and combat sickness at a finite rate. As such, it does weaken the system for a very short period. Adding the key strengthens the system but there is a very short term price (couple of days) when extra load is put on the system and it becomes slightly less able to combat other threats.
Still well worth it to get the key though...
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10-27-2009, 01:45 PM
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#332
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by fotze
Thats awesome, good work Calgary Health region. 1 million divided by 10,000 per day is indeed 100 days.
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In an earlier CBC article ( that was probably linked to earlier, but here it is) it sounded as though Alberta was caught off guard by the early approval of the vaccine. They thought they had until the second week of November to get their stuff together.
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"We didn't expect this vaccine until the second week of November so it's only late last week that we heard that the vaccine had been approved by Health Canada," chief medical officer of health Dr. Andre Corriveau said on CBC Radio's Wildrose on Monday.
"And I think it was quite an amazing feat over Friday and over the weekend that HS [Health Services] was able to train their staff and set up those clinics. And now they're just getting started. So let's give it a few days before we criticize the approach that's being used."
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But it's all a moo point anyway, because the province only got 400,000 doses this week.
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"For all of Calgary, in a serious pandemic that has been foreseen for half a year, there are only four immunization clinics and only five in Edmonton," said Liberal MLA Kevin Taft, who tried to get a shot at a clinic in Edmonton Monday. "Nine clinics to urgently immunize two million people won’t do the job."
But the current number of clinics was based on fact the province was given 400,000 doses of the vaccine to start its program, Corriveau said.
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10-27-2009, 01:46 PM
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#333
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Red
I wonder if it's because if the combination of 2 shots? We had just the H1N1 yesterday and we (2 kids and wife) all just have the sore arm.
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Maybe. Getting both at the same time is likely more taxing on the immune system. The H1N1 arm soreness was certainly more pronounced than the regular shot!
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10-27-2009, 01:48 PM
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#334
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell
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I got mine today 
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10-27-2009, 01:48 PM
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#335
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Got Oliver Klozoff
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I just had lunch with a friend of mine that is a nurse and she got the shot yesterday. I guess Doctors and nurses have a "special" clinic they go to so they don't have to wait in line. She said her arm is killing as well today. Still a small price to pay to avoid this flu....
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10-27-2009, 01:48 PM
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#336
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by Willi Plett
It essentially forces the body to react as if it is sick....
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So maybe someone slipped the vaccine in my drink?
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10-27-2009, 01:49 PM
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#337
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Ed Stelamch may have been a farmer but that doesn't he should treat people like cattle.
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10-27-2009, 01:56 PM
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#338
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
Hey Hesla, do you (or anyone else) know if you can get the shot anywhere? I mean could I drive to Okotoks, Airdrie or Cochrane and get it there if I live in Calgary? I read on some comment page that the lines at these clinics aren't nearly as bad.
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Yes you can. Theo Fleury apparently showed up at the Okotoks clinic yesterday.
My wife got her shot today. The clinic opens at noon. She got there at 11:00 AM and she had her shot by 12:45 PM.
P.S. The clinics hours are from Noon to 6:00 Pm Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. If you get there before you close, you will get your shot. They won't send you home without it just because its past 6:00 pm.
.... another good thing is the line up is inside. The clinic is at the Centennial Arena (where the Okotoks Oilers Jr A team plays).
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10-27-2009, 02:02 PM
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#339
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Spartanville
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Only a matter of time before the league sends out a memo discouraging spitting on the ice.
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10-27-2009, 03:45 PM
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#340
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Franchise Player
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According to Heather Yourex on twitter:
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New h1n1 Clinic opens tomorrow at olympic oval at 8:30... only for pregnant women, kids under 10, seniors and their immediate family
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