Louisville announces its first swine flu clinics for next week, as two more people in Louisville die from it.  That's as some people begin to worry the vaccine's supply can't keep up with the flu.

An H1N1 clinic at the 4-H fairgrounds in New Albany runs until eight Wednesday night.  Another runs until seven at Nolan Fieldhouse in Sellersburg.  Look for a much larger operation at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium November 11th and 12th for Louisville's first public --and free-- clinic.

Julie Alexander of Memphis, Indiana, could be a parent from Louisville, or anywhere else.  "I was just really happy to be able to get it so soon, because they were talking about how they were doling it out, and we didn't know how we were going to be able to get it."  She brought her four-year-old son Gabriel to a free Clark County clinic for a dose of the H1N1 vaccine.

With the Louisville clinic next week, Dr. Adawale Troutman, Louisville Metro Health Dept. Director, addresses who should receive the vaccine: "Pregnant women, people who live with or care for children younger six months of age, children six months through four years of age, children five through eighteen who have chronic, underlying medical conditions, and healthcare workers and emergency responders."

Louisville's health department already has sent out 47,000 doses of vaccine to health care workers, doctors offices and hospitals. Surrounding counties have had clinics for a couple of weeks, but Louisville wanted to wait.

That wait was to accumulate another 15,000 doses for the first public, mass clinic.  Just as in Indiana clinics, Louisville will turn away no one based on where they live, but doctors trust everyone to be on the honor system about being at risk.  As Troutman puts it, "Someone who comes who is not in the risk group, it might mean he or she is getting a vaccination, and somebody in the high-risk group is not getting one because we ran out."

The Health Department says the two women who died are the second and third people to die of complications from the flu in Louisville.  They are women, ages 42 and 54, and they had underlying medical conditions that made the H1N1 flu worse.

TARC will offer free bus service to the clinics from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day from the following five area locations:

Urban Government Center       
810 Barret Ave.

East Government Center
200 Juneau Dr.

Southwest Government Center
7219 Dixie Highway

Central Government Center
7201 Outer Loop

The Nia Center
2900 W. Broadway

The buses will run approximately every 30 minutes from these sites to Papa John's Stadium.

Louisville H1N1 Flu Hotline: 568-H1N1 (4161) is answered weekdays 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.