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SEASONAL FLU UPDATES & RESOURCES
COVID remains BUT FLU SEASON IS HERE, TOO!
CDC Resources for Clinicians on Making a Strong Flu Vaccine Recommendation and about the upcoming 2020-2021 Flu Season
Whether you’re a primary care physician, nurse, health care personnel, or working in an assisted living facility or with a population at high risk for serious flu complications, you play a significant role in helping protect people from influenza. The best available protection is annual influenza vaccination for all people ages 6 months and older. Getting a flu vaccine for yourself, and making a strong influenza vaccine recommendation to those you care for is especially important this year.
Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Webinar Resources (Free Continuing Education)
- COCA Call: August 20, 2020 – 2020-2021 Influenza Vaccination Recommendations and Clinical Guidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Testing and Treatment of 2020-2021 Seasonal Influenza During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Recommendations for Influenza Prevention and Treatment in Children: An Update for Pediatric Providers
Making a Strong Flu Vaccine Recommendation Resources for Healthcare providers
- Current Season Info For Health Care Providers
- Make a Strong Flu Vaccine Recommendation (S.H.A.R.E model)
- Tools to Prepare Your Practice for Flu Season
- #HowIRecommend video series (health care providers share their advice and tips for have vaccination conversations with their patients.
Long-term Care Toolkit Resources
- Toolkit for Long-Term Care Employers (will be updated in the coming days)
- Guidance: Influenza Outbreak Management in Long-Term Care Facilities
CDC Flu Vaccination Campaign Resources
Attached are resources that are part of our Roll your #SleeveUp to #FightFlucommunication activation.Below is a message on this communication effort and attached are the photo frames, additional social media graphics, and social media message.
Roll your #SleeveUp to #FightFlu this fall. Encourage followers on social media to roll their sleeves up for an annual flu vaccine by featuring photos of your organization’s leader and community members with their #SleeveUp getting their flu vaccine or showing off their bandage from having gotten a flu vaccine. Use the included social media “frames” and other graphics to help promote flu vaccination to reduce flu illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths this fall and winter and save medical resources for the care of COVID-19 patients.
The Ad Council, the American Medical Association (AMA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the CDC Foundation launched a new campaign, No One Has Time for Flu, to encourage Americans to get vaccinated against flu. A campaign toolkit, including prepared social media messages and graphics, radio and television PSAs, and more now available.
Additionally, below and attached are several other resources from CDC’s flu vaccination campaign.
CMS Flu Vaccine Campaign Resources
- Increasing Flu Shot Outreach & Uptake
- Medicare, Medicaid, & CHIP campaign materials
- Medicare 2020 Flu Ad – Dad & Me (:30 Seconds)
- Medicare 2020 Spanish Flu Video – Covered All Season Long (:15 Seconds)
Digital Campaign Resources
- Digital Media Toolkit: 2020-21 Flu Season (will be continually updated throughout the season)
- Social Media Toolkit
- Spanish Social Media Toolkit
- National Influenza Vaccination Week
Key Consumer Web Resources
- Protect Your Health This Season
- Who is at High Risk for Flu Complications
- What You Need to Know for 2020-21
Videos
- Roll Up Your Sleeve for Your Annual Flu Vaccine
- Flu Can Be Very Serious – Flu Vaccine Protects
- Mask up, Lather Up, and Sleeve Up to Fight Flu
- The Difference between Flu and COVID-19
Multi-Language Resources:
- Wear a mask, wash your hands, get a flu vaccine flyer (in multiple languages)
- Multi-Language Factsheets
- Spanish Communication Resources
Ad Council Flu Vaccine Resources
- CDC and AMA Team up with the Ad Council to Urge Flu Vaccination to Reduce Deaths, Hospitalizations amid COVID-19 Pandemic
- https://getmyflushot.org/
- https://vacunatecontralainfluenza.org/
- Webinar covering Ad Council’s Flu Vaccination Campaign
- No Time For Flu :30 https://youtu.be/cl7wNuU5IIU
- Nadie Tiene Tiempo para la Influenza :30 https://youtu.be/jfoWt4R-08w
VaccineFinder Web Widget (tool you can place on your website to help people find vaccination locations near them)
Featured Videos
#MaskUp, #LatherUp, and #SleeveUp Outreach Brief – Healthcare Professionals
Medscape COVID-19 and SEASONAL FLU Updates – October 05 2020
ACIP Flu Vaccine 2020-2021 Recommendations From Medscape Infectious Disease Influenza immunization will be more critical than ever this fall. Dr Lisa Grohskopf from the CDC’s influenza division provides a concise summary. Read more MORE ON INFLUENZA IN THE ERA OF COVID AAP: Kids Should Receive Flu Vaccinations by the End of October Flu Vaccine is Important, … [Read more]
NJ DOH COVID-19 and SEASONAL FLU Updates – September 30 2020
NJ FLU Guidance which is useful to all states and settings except where prohibited or superceded by local and state regulations/guidance. The VPDP has prioritized healthcare provider flu vaccination for the next upcoming grant cycles. For the grant, we plan to survey healthcare providers about their knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors regarding flu vaccination. We … [Read more]