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St. Mary’s County approves $45,000 for school flu vaccines and votes to buy small Tamiflu stockpile
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners authorized $45,000 to pre-purchase seasonal influenza vaccine for elementary students and approved an $11,000 purchase of Tamiflu for local emergency use after a divided vote (3–2). Health officials said local control of antivirals and an earlier vaccine delivery would help response if flu resurfaces in fall.
The St. Mary's County Board of County Commissioners voted May 19 to use emergency funds to buy seasonal flu vaccine for public elementary school students and to acquire a small local stock of the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
Commissioners approved a budget amendment to spend $45,000 to pre-purchase seasonal influenza vaccine for the county’s elementary school immunization program and, in a separate vote, approved spending $11,000 to build a limited cache of Tamiflu for local use. The Tamiflu motion passed with two commissioners opposing; the vaccine purchase passed unanimously.
Health Department staff and commissioners framed the purchases as precautionary steps to avoid the distribution delays that occurred earlier in the year. Dr. Eisenhower, a St. Mary's County Health Department official, told the board that local control of an antiviral supply would “give the health department a supply under local control should there be a…
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