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by Brittany Baumann |

SPOKANE-- Thousands of people showed up Saturday for a free Swine Flu vaccine clinic in Spokane. Some people were turned away, even though health officials had several thousand doses of the vaccine remaining.

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Now the Spokane Regional Health District is coming up with a plan as to what to do with the leftover vaccines.

The district administered the Swine Flu vaccine in both the nasal spray and shot form. It had a total of 4,300 vaccines but only 800 of them were in shot form.

Unlike the nasal spray, the shot does not have a live strain of the virus, so the shot went to pregnant women, very young children, and people with underlying health problems. The injectables ran out after only three hours, so those people were then turned away.

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