It's getting easier to find the H1N1 vaccine.

Nearly half a million doses have arrived in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, and local health officials have announced long lists of places to get the shots and the nasal spray.

Ana Borge, 42, of Miami, gratefully woke her three sons, Christopher, 12, Jonathan, 11, and Anthony, 8, to line up in the dark at 6 a.m. Wednesday for a free vaccine clinic at a Miami-Dade Fair pavilion.

By 9:30 a.m., when the clinic opened half an hour early, there were 400 in line with her.

``I was very worried,'' Borges said, discussing her fears about the H1N1 virus. ``I've heard about people with complications, even people who have died.''

By 2 p.m. the line was down to a trickle and the clinic ended. An estimated 2,500 doses were given out. About 900 more doses were administered at the department's downtown clinic on Wednesday.

Locating H1N1 vaccine has been a national problem. A Harvard survey earlier this week found that 70 percent of those seeking swine flu vaccinations couldn't find them. In Miami-Dade, parents were calling the health department complaining that their private doctors didn't have or weren't giving the vaccine, and wondering where to get it, said department director Lillian Rivera.

Now she has some answers: It's available in public schools, at county and federal free clinics, a few hospital clinics and from more than 700 private doctors and some Walgreens pharmacies in Miami-Dade. More pharmacies and supermarkets are expected to have vaccines next week.

In Broward, vaccines are in schools, a new county high-risk clinic and from private doctors, although not yet in commercial pharmacies or supermarkets.

Universities have it for students and faculty; hospitals have it, although mostly for their own healthcare workers.

Supplies still are reserved for high-priority groups including pregnant women, people who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age, healthcare and emergency medical services personnel, people between the ages of 6 months and 24 years, and people ages 25 through 64 who have chronic health conditions such as asthma or diabetes.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ana M. Viamonte Ros, visiting Miami-Dade's free clinic Wednesday, called it a good example of how to disburse vaccine.

``This is the first mass clinic in Florida,'' she said. ``We hope to have them in other areas.''

She said swine flu has hit a plateau in Florida. ``But we don't know if it will go up or down. It's a novel virus.''

Since April, Florida has had 149 H1N1 flu deaths, Miami-Dade has had 30 and Broward has had 11. Nine deaths were reported in Florida in the past week, including one in Broward and none in Miami-Dade.

After weeks of uncertainty, Miami-Dade now has received 299,400 doses of swine flu vaccine, and Broward has received 195,000 doses. Dade health department technical specialist Myra Markowski, sitting at a laptop computer, was able to tick off the places in Miami-Dade where vaccines are available.

Swine flu vaccinations are free at the Miami-Dade Health Department's five clinics, plus 12 other health centers. A list of clinics is at www.dadehealth.org.

Supplies are arriving in the offices of 716 private Miami-Dade physicians who have registered with the Florida Shots program to give immunizations.

``We could use 500 more private doctors,'' Rivera said. Doctors can sign up at flshots.com.