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By JEFFREY WEISS / The Dallas Morning News jweiss@dallasnews.com |

Dallas County health officials spent Thursday figuring out how to get people with insurance more 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine, even as they continued to vaccinate the uninsured.

Almost 3,100 people received vaccine during the second day of the county's first large-scale walk-in vaccination clinic, bringing the two-day total to about 6,700. The clinic is scheduled to reopen this morning, and the county will offer the remainder of more than 10,000 doses it started the week with.

But plans announced by Texas officials on Wednesday may send thousands of doses a week to the county health department. And large clinics like the one this week that basically closed the department to anything but swine flu vaccinations just aren't practical very often, county health department director Zachary Thompson said.

"I'm glad to get more doses," he said.

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