Deputies Hold Boy Who Fled Flu Shot

[Fredkc]

Gee.. where to post this...
Health? naw...
Politics? To what end, if "mom" just runs away cause she can't bear to watch.

I dunno.

WHEELING - It took the strength of two sheriff's deputies to keep a middle schooler still enough to receive a shot of the swine flu, or H1N1, vaccine at a recent clinic.

During a regular Wheeling-Ohio County Health Board meeting Tuesday, health department Administrator Howard Gamble told board members about the student's attempt to flee Wheeling Middle School during a vaccination clinic held there last Friday.

He noted the boy's mother could not bear to watch the scene and left the gymnasium. Out of apparent fear of receiving the injection, the student ran out of the building. The school's resource officer, Ohio County Sheriff's Deputy John Haglock, coaxed the boy back inside. Once at the shot station, however, Haglock apparently needed some help keeping the boy still, and another deputy assisted.

"He tried to run. I looked over and saw two sheriff's deputies holding a kid down," Gamble said. "Mom took off, she couldn't take it. You had one nurse with the needle, two deputies holding him, one nurse is grabbing hands - because that's what they want to do, to go after the needle. And that's the last thing you want."

Gamble said as soon as the nurse gave the boy his injection and told him he was done, he hopped up like nothing had happened.

"For the most part they go very easy. As far as the shots, every once in awhile you have to hold down one or two - but that's why mom is there or dad is there," Gamble said.

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[Northern Boy]

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[Fredkc]

NB;

I wore out over 4 LP's of that album. lost count of the cassettes of same. I have tried and tried, and I still can't seem to wear out this damned CD of it.

Maybe I'm slipping in my old age, ya think?

Fred

[waitinginthewings]

Fredck: that is a very disturbing story on many levels......Mom running away & not protecting her child? The officers forcefully holding the child down, the medical people & everyone else not respecting the childs wishes. I wonder if the child had any reaction to the vaccine>

Is this the next step, forcefully injecting people those who refuse?

[Jack]

Is this just an instance of a kid who was afraid of needles and not neccesarily the vaccine itself?

[Anchor]

Originally Posted by Jack

Is this just an instance of a kid who was afraid of needles and not neccesarily the vaccine itself?

My hunch too.

[Fredkc]

Originally Posted by Jack

Is this just an instance of a kid who was afraid of needles and not neccesarily the vaccine itself?

A possibility. That being the case I guess you could write off the entire thing as proof sheep have absolutely no instincts at all.