Today, after a week’s delay due to shipping problems, is Student Health Service’s first swine-flu vaccine clinic. We’re glad Penn is finally able to distribute the vaccine, and hope that we’ll see you at the ARCH building today.
As college students conditioned to putting our bodies through the wringer, it’s easy to view the swine flu as just another thing to power through and then recover. But the Centers for Disease Control has recommended that all persons under the age of 24 get the vaccine because it tends to strike young people, and we’re hardly ones to go against so many doctors’ warnings.
Penn’s stayed relatively swine-flu free, with no major outbreaks like those that have been seen at other schools, but that could change at any moment. Beyond that, even if the flu doesn’t run rampant across campus, you’re hardly doing yourself a favor by risking getting sick. With one last round of midterms and then finals, you owe it to yourself and to your fellow students to stay as healthy as possible during this cold, rainy slide from winter into fall.
