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Fremont Campus Flu Shot Clinic aims to keep students & staff healthy
Pueblo Community College wants to keep its students, faculty and staff in
good health during the upcoming cold-weather season.
To help accomplish that, its Fremont Campus will conduct a Flu Shot Clinic here
on Monday, Nov. 3. The clinic will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room 134.
Administering the influenza vaccines will be Dr. Silviano Arguello, who is the
physician in the new Health Clinic that opened this fall semester on PCC’s main
campus in Pueblo. Dr. Arguello maintained a family medical practice in Pueblo
for more than 20 years being coming to PCC.
Students, faculty and staff will be able to receive their flu vaccines for just
$10. PCC is hoping that making the shots so convenient and affordable will cause
many to get inoculated this year.
“This is another example of our student-driven strategies that show our
commitment to helping them succeed by ensuring that they, our faculty and our
staff can remain healthy during this academic year,” said Dr. J.D. Garvin, PCC’s
president.
The timing of the Flu Shot Clinics couldn’t be better. While the flu season
generally doesn’t peak until the December-March winter months, the first case of
influenza in Colorado this season was reported on Oct. 21 in El Paso County.
A similar clinic was held over three days (Oct. 21-23) on PCC’s Pueblo Campus
and others will take place this week at PCC’s Southwest Campus sites in Durango
and Cortez/Mancos. To help impress the health awareness message on PCC students,
Associated Student Government President Marie Steinbach was one of the first to
show up for her flu shot on the Pueblo Campus.
PCC is taking a proactive approach to promoting the clinics by providing Flu
Shot Clinic information on its electronic news pages that appear when students
and staff log onto campus computers. Information also is provided through
printed flyers that have been posted on all campuses.
Unlike past years when a limited number of vaccines were available in Colorado,
there is an all-time-high allotment this year, meaning everyone older than six
months of age can be vaccinated. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention show that adults receiving a flu vaccine have 27 percent fewer
missed work days due to illness.
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