New video from the Boston Public Health Commission:

A couple of clinics on Saturday and Monday. My Dorchester has the details. Because of vaccine shortages, only people in high-risk groups (which the site lists) will get shots.

Look for Channel 7 to highlight the line that stretched around the corner extended a few feet outside the door of the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center this morning, as frenzied calm people waited in line for a flu shot.

Dr. Gwenn tries to dampen rising hysteria over swine-flu shots:

... Sometimes as parents we have to stop over thinking a situation and do what we have to in order to keep our children safe. I believe this is one of those situations. Instead of questioning data and acting out of fear, we need to start trusting the doctors and scientists working hard to keep our communities safe. After all, they have families and children, too.

My entire family is getting H1N1 this year. I believe in this vaccine and its safety. Please consider doing the same for your kids ...

John Carroll sat amazed last night as he watched Rhondella Richardson narrate a report on swine flu with a face mask on - because she was standing outside the house of somebody who apparently had it. Or as he puts it:

A surgical mask?

Really?

When Richardson was nowhere near the maybe-infected family?

Really really pathetic.

By moving students with flu-like symptoms into quarantine rooms and wearing masks. Oh, wait, you thought I was going to write about, oh, never mind.

Earlier:
BU sets up quarantine rooms for students with the flu.

Feverish, coughing students have to change rooms until they're better, the Daily Free Press reports.

Likely flu outbreak at MIT.

Now that they've exposed Obama's plan to kill your grandmother, the wingnuts are flooding Massachusetts with urgent warnings that Massachusetts plans to force people to get flu shots this fall.

Not true, says Domenico Bettinelli, no fan of Democrats:

... I encourage you to read the whole bill as I did. You will [read] that not only does the bill not say that a person can be vaccinated against his will, it says the exact opposite. ...

The Boston Public Health Commission is going all out to warn/inform people about the flu.

The commission's just set up an e-mail/text alert system to keep you up to the minute on the spread of flu across the city. You'll have to choose which group you belong to (from "businesses" to "residents").

The commission also has a set of downloadable posters that are just the thing for taping to lunchroom/bathroom walls about how to reduce flu transmission (such as sneezing into your sleeve instead of onto co-workers).