While UF health care workers in the areas with the highest risks are now able to receive the H1N1 swine flu vaccine through UF, it's not clear when students and faculty will be able to do the same.
The university was given about 600 doses of the swine flu vaccine, which will be administered to employees in the emergency, infection control, pediatrics, labor and delivery, mother/baby and oncology departments and the intensive care units at the hospital and the university, according to UF's swine flu Web site, www.ehs.ufl.edu/h1n1.
Dr. Phillip Barkley, director of the Student Health Care Center, said UF has requested about 45,000 doses of the vaccine for the general population, but said he doesn't know when they might arrive.
Barkley also said he didn't expect UF to receive all 45,000 requested doses.
Alachua County received its first shipment of swine flu vaccine, 2,600 doses, about two weeks ago.
Nationally, the government has announced it will have up to 30 million doses ready by the end of the month.
The SHCC has seen about 1,000 people for flu or flu-like symptoms since the beginning of the semester, according to numbers on UF's Web site.
