Despite a limited supply, more community clinics are following the lead of city schools by offering free H1N1 vaccine drives. NY1's Kafi Drexel filed the following report.

H1N1 shots almost seem tougher to get than World Series tickets, so Miksha Patel made sure to be the first in line to reserve spots for her aging parents and relatives.

"This vaccine is very important to prevent especially the elderly folks from getting any swine flu infection. I myself want to take one today," Patel said.

She and her family were just some of hundreds who showed up Wednesday at a one-day vaccine drive run by New York Hospital Queens. It's part of an 18-site distribution program administered by the non-profit Primary Care Development Corporation and is funded by the city. The goal is to reach those most at risk.

"We do serve immuno compromised patients, low income patients, uninsured, pregnant females etcetera," said Christine O'Hagan Carlin New York Hospital Queens.

The clinic was welcome news for three-months pregnant Sheron Ally who's been scrambling everywhere to find vaccine.

"Every time I call the doctor's office they just ran out yesterday. It is very important because if I get the swine flu, the doctor said that can terminate my pregnancy and I don't want that to happen," Ally said.

While meeting the challenge of hitting priority groups first has been one thing, doing it with limited resources has been another.

The national vaccine shortage has definitely affected the planning and logistics of the distribution. Organizers at the Queens site say they were so low on supply that they actually had to borrow hundreds of doses from a clinic in the Bronx to make sure the drive happened.

"We were anticipating 1,000 doses to come in and unfortunately we did not get the thousand doses. I only received three hundred doses myself and then I borrowed 300 from the other site," O'Hagan Carlin said.

This was actually the third similar clinic in the city. The first two in other areas not as well publicized because they didn't have enough vaccine.

In just a few hours, 599 doses in all were administered at the New York Hospital Queens with the help of some special volunteers. Students from St. Francis Prep, where the H1N1 outbreak first appeared in the city, were on-hand to help register fellow community members.

"We are trying to protect other people now from getting the flu, so we are just going to help out. Make sure nobody else gets it. We're going to try and contain it," said St. Francis Prep student James Coyne

To find out more about other vaccination sites around the city, visit www.nyc.gov/flu and click on the city's H1N1 vaccine locator.