Hundreds Of CMS Students To Receive The H1N1 Vaccine Monday

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will provide students with H1N1 shots Monday.

The Mecklenburg County Health Department and CMS began preparing Friday.

Dozens of packed vaccination kits have been sent to six schools for Monday. The director for school health said the youngest students should get vaccinated first.

CMS broken to six areas, and each day health officials will make sure a school from each learning community is covered.

On Monday, J.H. Gunn, Starmont, Hidden Valley and Billingsville elementary schools, along with Tryon Hills and Amay James preschools, will get the first round of vaccinations.

Only students whose parents have signed the permission slips will receive the vaccine.

CMS administrators said they hope more parents will go to their own doctor and use the school's vaccines as a last alternative.

CMS has 11,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine, which administrators said should last them through Thanksgiving.