No one wants to think about the flu, but it’s just about time you did. Scheduling your workforce’s group shots now could prevent pain, suffering and lost productivity at work this fall and beyond.
Flu season can begin as early as October and last until May. Last year’s flu season made for misery over the holidays, increasing right around Thanksgiving, peaking toward the end of December, decreasing in early January, and then landing one final wallop in late spring.
Some cases were so severe – mostly blamed on the same 2009 H1N1 “swine flu” strain – that there was a noticeable uptick in flu-related hospitalizations.
But don’t wait until it’s too late. Demand for vaccines will increase as the flu begins to circulate.
And this year vaccine availability in the U.S. may be an issue because of quality control issues with a main supplier’s manufacturing facility in Canada. That plant was slated to provide 23 million vaccines to the U.S. and 6 million of these doses have been thrown out already.
One thing’s for sure: The flu season is unpredictable. It’s anyone’s guess whether shot demand will exceed availability and if vaccines are formulated to protect against the right strains year to year.
This year’s trivalent vaccines will protect against three strains:
– A/California/7/2009 (H1N1) pdm09-like virus,
– an A/Texas/50/2012 (H3N2)-like virus, and
– a B/Massachusetts/2/2012-like virus.
The quadrivalent (4-strain) formula will also include an additional B virus (B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus).
Protect your workers now before they get sick or there’s a vaccine shortage. At the moment, we have vaccine available and workers are showing no symptoms after receiving their shot. We currently have trivalent, preservative free trivalent, and quadrivalent vaccine in stock.
Go into the flu season knowing that your office is inoculated against the worst that the 2014-2015 flu season might bring.
We are now scheduling our group flu shot clinics. Get on the schedule now. Contact us at 800-685-5572.
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