Family docs get H1N1 flu vaccine

This should take a lot of pressure off the H1N1 flu shot clinics in Hamilton.

Family doctors will start giving out the vaccine today.

Dr. Chris Mackie, Hamilton's Associate Medical Officer of Health, says 50 to 60 doctors across the city are receiving their vaccine orders today.

The rest will likely get them in the next couple of days.

Again, the H1N1 shots will be for a high risk patients only.

Several thousand people were immunized at the city's four clinics yesterday, but the lines virtually disappeared by late afternoon.

The clinics are in the same locations today.

At Dundas Baptist Church, Jackson Square, the Chedoke Twin Pad Arena and St. Helen's Elementary School on Britannia Avenue.