The Joint Influenza and Covid Vaccination Campaign for 2023-24 Season: Start Date and Recommendations

The Joint Influenza and Covid Vaccination Campaign for 2023-24 Season: Start Date and Recommendations

The vaccination campaign for this 2023-24 season will be joint against influenza and covid 19. This has been confirmed by the Public Health Commission, which has already announced when it will begin. Likewise, the institution has also agreed to recommend immunization against the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), which causes bronchiolitis, for at-risk babies up to … Read more

Flu Campaign: Vaccination Strategy and Purchase Details for 2022 Season

Flu Campaign: Vaccination Strategy and Purchase Details for 2022 Season

The forecast is that the flu campaign will also begin this year in October so that the population is vaccinated in the months in which the peak of flu infections reaches its peak, usually in the months of December and January. . For this, the Ministry of Health has already acquired the necessary doses. In … Read more

Estremadura Continues Vaccination Against Covid and Flu Despite Cases Rebound

Estremadura Continues Vaccination Against Covid and Flu Despite Cases Rebound

Estremadura will maintain vaccination against covid and flu by mid-October despite the fact that Public Health Commissionin which both the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities, including Extremadura, are represented, This Tuesday it agreed to advance it to the last week of September due to the rebound in cases. The vaccination campaign against flu … Read more

Free Drive-Thru Flu Shot Events in San Antonio: Protect Yourself and Stay Healthy

Free Drive-Thru Flu Shot Events in San Antonio: Protect Yourself and Stay Healthy

SAN ANTONIO – University Health and Bexar County will offer free flu shots at four drive-thru events. “We have seen an increase in respiratory viruses during the summer. The best defense against getting sick is to wash your hands frequently and stay up to date on your vaccines,” said Jason Bowling, director of hospital epidemiology … Read more

Flu Vaccination in Schools: Protecting Children in the Region of Murcia

Flu Vaccination in Schools: Protecting Children in the Region of Murcia

The vaccine against gripe This course arrives for the first time in schools in the Region of Murcia after the pilot experience carried out last year by the Ministry of Health. The objective of the department headed by Juan José Pedreño is to immunize first and second year preschool students in educational centers at the … Read more

Nurses in Primary Care Centers face expanded vaccination schedule in Catalonia

Nurses in Primary Care Centers face expanded vaccination schedule in Catalonia

Las nurses of the primary care centers (CAP) of Catalonia, nails 5.700 (26,700 in the overall health system), they will have to put this year more vaccines than ever. He vaccination schedule This season is expanded and nurses, in addition to all the vaccines they already give each year, will have to immunize too from … Read more

Start of Covid and Flu Vaccination in Valencian Community with Vulnerable Patients

Start of Covid and Flu Vaccination in Valencian Community with Vulnerable Patients

Friday, September 8, 2023, 17:34 The Minister of Health, Marciano Gómez, announced this Friday that the Covid and flu vaccination will begin in the Valencian Community the week of October 16 to 23 with vulnerable patients. Gómez made these statements to the media after presiding over the meeting of the Consejo de Gobierno Consorci Provincial … Read more

COVID and Flu Vaccines: Fifth Dose and Joint Administration for Target Groups in Andalusia

COVID and Flu Vaccines: Fifth Dose and Joint Administration for Target Groups in Andalusia

The fifth dose of the covid vaccine will be administered from October together with that of the flu to protect the target groups from both infections, after 60% coverage of these groups was reached in 2022, when it should have reached “the 80-85%». The Public Health Commission recommends them to people over 60 years of … Read more

Why it is Advisable to Vaccinate Children Against the Flu: Insights from Pediatric Infectologist Elisa Garrote

Why it is Advisable to Vaccinate Children Against the Flu: Insights from Pediatric Infectologist Elisa Garrote

In a few weeks a new flu vaccination campaign begins. The main novelty this year is the inclusion of children between 6 months and 5 years of age among the population for which the injection is indicated. The preparation, recommended by the WHO and the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP), is already administered to healthy … Read more

New Flu Vaccine Coverage for Children in Castilla-La Mancha and Throughout Spain

New Flu Vaccine Coverage for Children in Castilla-La Mancha and Throughout Spain

Children under the age of six months to five years will be able to receive, for the first time, the flu vaccine in Castilla-La Mancha. Is about a new coverage that will take place throughout Spain during this campaign -until now only children with underlying pathologies were vaccinated- and which aims to reach 1.6 million … Read more