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
Roll your #SleeveUp to #FightFlu communication activation.
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 are several other resources from CDC’s flu vaccination campaign.
- CMS Flu Vaccine Campaign Resources
- 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
- Videos
- Multi-Language 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)