12 Quotes by Tom Roy

We do surveillance in much the same way here in Stoddard County, ... Any number of agencies call us and we collect data on those reports and turn them into the state.

We have already talked to our distributor and we will be getting the needed number of vaccines, ... There will not be any shortage that we are aware of that could possibly limit the number of people who will be able to receive a vaccine.

We don't have our vaccines in yet but we expect them to come in soon, ... But even if we were to get them in today, we wouldn't feel safe distributing them until around the last week of October.

We just had a cold-front come through, so that will likely aggravate some upper-respiratory issues for some people, ... But, if there are additional symptoms, that will be something to take note of. It isn't always easy to get a (influenza) diagnosis.

We cover match play differently than stroke play. For example, when we go to a match, we stay with it. You can't jump around from player-to-player and hole-to-hole as you would in a stroke play event.

Flu season extends all the way to March or April of next year, ... I would not be comfortable giving any of the vaccines too early because then you have people that won't be protected at the end of flu season.

A lot of people will say they got the flu from the vaccine and they didn't. What they had was a reaction to a shot the same as you would have a reaction to any other shot.

That is because the spray is a live-form of the flu,

If you have a child, whether they're considered high-risk or not, you should go ahead and have them vaccinated, ... It's a good idea to get everyone vaccinated.