FLU season approaches:
Vaccinations in community pharmacies will take on greater significance in the coming months once the full rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination program comes into effect.
Wholesalers have announced that supplies of the flu vaccine have begun being delivered to community pharmacies.
Reminding everyone of the need to also have the flu vax is important, particularly with so much focus on the COVID-19 vaccination program.
Maximizing the uptake of people being vaccinated against COVID-19 is critical to help in getting our lives and businesses back onto a more normal footing and people are out and about more -- and so exposed to the flu virus.
Because of the lockdowns and movement restrictions, last year the flu statistics were amazingly low. The Immunisation Coalition reports there were 21,356 Laboratory confirmed notifications of influenza in Australia in 2020, compared with 313,061 for 2019.
The low numbers for last year may lead people to think they don't need a flu vax this year. This is absolutely not true. Getting the flu vax is just as important as ever.
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