Last fall there were lines wrapped around the health department building to get the H1N1 Vaccine. Two things have changed since then, the vaccine is open to anyone, and there are no more lines.

Annkatherine Sawyer was the only one at the health department while we were there interested in getting the H1N1 Vaccine

She says she knows it’s an atypical time to get a flu shot, but a couple of things brought her in today.

“There were plenty of flu shots and no waiting,” says Sawyer.

Annkatherine is one of about 155 patients who seek out the H1N1 vaccine each week at the health department. That's down from January where an average 900-people were vaccinated every week.

“We've had close to 40,000 people in Washoe County who have taken advantage of getting the H1N1Vaccine, that's only about 10% of the population and we know there are still susceptible people out there. We hope that the virus is done with us, we don't know that,” says Dr. Randal Todd, Washoe County Epidemiologist.

Todd says for now the vaccine is offered Monday through Friday, but after next week those times and days could change. What could also change is the course of the disease, will it come back in late spring or fall? Or morph into something less threatening.

The health department says the vaccines are free and now open to anyone who wants one. What they can't guarantee is when they will stop being available. That's why they say you should come in now.

County Health Officials say next year’s flu vaccine will protect against the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus.