San Joaquin County public health officials announced they would administer swine flu shots for poor people and the uninsured from 8 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the public health department, 1601 E. Hazelton Ave.

The health department on Tuesday wants to give shots to children and young adults from 6 months to 24 years old; to pregnant women and to caregivers of infants younger than 6 months old.

The clinic will continue to give swine vaccines every Tuesday through December, or until officials run out of the vaccine.

Swine flu vaccine has been hard to come by, but doses have started to trickle out in the past week or so.

Earlier this week, about 1,800 people were vaccinated against the swine flu at a Sutter Tracy Community Hospital clinic organized by local businessman Dan Schack.

And San Joaquin Health Officer Karen Furst urges people who have health insurance to contact their doctors if they’re interested in receiving a dose of the vaccine.

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