Due to a temporary shortage of flu vaccine, a Tuesday flu shot clinic at Northwest College has been canceled.

Park County Public Health had planned to run a clinic from 8 a.m. to noon at NWC’s Yellowstone Building on Tuesday after an earlier clinic at the Park County Fairgrounds failed to draw a strong response.

However, “we are way low on flu vacccine,” Park County Public Health Nurse Manager Bill Crampton said Monday. That forced the cancellation of Tuesday’s event; it remains to be seen whether the clinic will be rescheduled.

Public health has ordered 2,000 doses of vaccine, but only 1,200 doses have arrived so far.

“Normally that would carry us well through October,” Crampton said. “But — and even though we didn’t have great participation [at the previous Powell clinic] — we’ve had a ton of walk-in folks, especially in Powell and Cody, too.”

The shortage is expected to be temporary, because vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur is shipping out Park County Public Health’s final 800 doses on Wednesday, Crampton said.

In recent years, public health has had to return 100 or 200 doses, but “I have a sneaking suspicion we won’t have any leftover this year,” Crampton said, adding that “everybody’s low on stuff.”

“It’s just one of those things,” he said of the demand. “You cannot predict human behavior.”