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(WHAS11) - The nasal mist swine flu vaccine arrives in Louisville Tuesday and healthcare workers will be? the first to get it.
The first 4000 doses of the swine flu nasal form are expected to arrive Tuesday at the Metro Health Department.
Pregnant women and children are also a high priority to get the vaccine.
A free swine flu hotline has been set up in Kentucky to answer questions about the sickness.
Most of us will not have access to the vaccine due here tomorrow.
It's intended for healthcare workers because it contains a partially active strain of the virus.
The vaccine most of us will receive is the traditional injection.
Those will be ready in a couple more weeks.
But people already have plenty of questions.
The doctors and nurses staffing the free swine flu hotline can hardly keep up.
"They are ringing off the hook as soon as I'm done I'm going to be getting on the phone," said hotline director Dr. Henry Spiller.
It seems even the healthy have a healthy fear of H1N!.
"It's scary?cause I don't want to get sick. A lot of people have died ain't it?" said Lakesha Franklin.
Four have died in Kentucky, possibly hundreds nationwide but doctors say it's no more dangerous than the everyday flu. This nurse from the UK is living proof.
"We're from the UK so we've had swine flu already," said Jenny, a swine flu survivor and nurse.
"I'm absolutely fine and living to tell the tale and travelling to Louisville."
However, doctors here still want to focus on prevention.
"As soon as the vaccine comes out they want to produce this immunity within the population. They want people to get the vaccine and perhaps we can just cut it off, nip it at the bud before it gets bigger," said Spiller.
"Vaccine? I think that'll make me even more sicker. Like you get a flu shot you still get sick," said Franklin.
Issues like that are ringing in to the hotline center, clearing up misconceptions and hoping most people will seek out the soon-to-be released vaccine.
"Yes, I do want to get it because I'm an older woman," said Marie Mallory.
But Mallory's daughter doesn't want her to.
"I've tried to convince her, and I think I will convince her to get it because I think everybody needs it," she said.
Doctors say "yes" swine flu is in Kentucky and Indiana, "yes" most people should get the vaccine, but "no" is not available for the general public yet. That will be a couple more weeks.
For other questions you can call the swine flu hotline here in Kentucky call 1-877-843-7727.
