In recent months, crowds have lined up at H1N1 vaccination clinics in Silicon Valley as early as 3:30 a.m.
No longer: Santa Clara County's Public Health Department is banning the practice.
The parking lot at the county fairgrounds will be closed until 7 a.m., and swine-flu lines won't be allowed to form.
A good thing: The weather outside will be frightful. And allowing people stand in the cold and rain doesn't seem conducive to public health.
Not that it was ever a good idea. But shortages of vaccine have prompted even more desperate behavior. (In France, they rioted -- but don't the French riot about everything?)
Those shortages are now easing, even as cases of swine flu are expected to rise in California.
The clinic will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 344 Tully Road in San Jose. Other vaccination clinics are taking place at Valley Health Center locations in East San Jose, Gilroy, Moorpark, and Sunnyvale this weekend.
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