The federal government reports that more than 100,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine have been distributed around Illinois. But none has appeared in Rock Island County, local officials said Tuesday.

H1N1 vaccine has reached other Illinois locations, including neighboring Whiteside County, which received 6,000 doses last week.

It also has reached locations in Iowa, where Scott County got its first shipment 12 days ago, on Oct. 9.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday that 114,000 H1N1 doses had been sent to Illinois, not including Chicago, which gets a separate allocation.

Rock Island County's order is queued up with others from around the state, said Kelly Jakubek, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Public Health. The state currently has exceeded its H1N1 allotment, she explained.

"We are cut off right now," she said. The federal government has been increasing the state's share every week, but not enough to fill Rock Island County's order yet.

"We're on hold," she added, explaining that the distribution process is not going smoothly. "We're trying to do the best we can with what we have."

When the order finally is filled, it will go directly from the distributor, McKesson Corp., to Rock Island County.

Calls made to the San Francisco-based distributor were not returned Tuesday afternoon. McKesson is in charge of shipping the H1N1 vaccine across the United States.

Rock Island County ordered doses of both FluMist, which is given nasally, and the version that is injected into the arm, said Theresa Foes, a spokeswoman for the county health department.

Some 6,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine were delivered in time for clinics hosted by the Whiteside County Health Department on Thursday and Friday, executive director Beth Fiorini said. The doses in both mist and injectable form were given to schoolchildren and priority groups, including pregnant women. About 2,000 doses remain available for distribution at a clinic scheduled to take place Saturday, she said.

"We feel very lucky," Fiorini added. "We ordered the H1N1 vaccines the very minute we could."

Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, announced Friday that vaccine production by H1N1 manufacturers has been delayed. Federal forecasts were that 40 million doses of the vaccine would be distributed by the end of October, but it now appears that 28 million to 30 million will actually be done by then, she said.

"What I'd like people to know is that more vaccine is becoming available regularly. But we aren't expecting widespread availability until the end of the month or the beginning of November," she added.

In an update issued Tuesday, she said that 12.8 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine are available and 10.8 million doses have been ordered by state health departments.

There is no H1N1 vaccine at Trinity Regional Health System, which is conducting seasonal flu clinics through its Visiting Nurse and Homecare Association. No H1N1 clinics are planned by the hospital organization because the inoculation process will be carried out by public health authorities.

Spokeswoman Erin Lounsberry said Trinity's nurses will be available to help distribute the H1N1 vaccine when it arrives, if their help is needed.