L.A. Care to hold five flu shot clinics and vaccination classes
LOS ANGELES – Last year, the U.S. saw the longest flu season in a decade. Twenty-one miserable weeks resulted in 647,000 hospitalizations and more than 61,000 deaths.
Seasonal flu vaccines are the only way to protect against numbers like that, and yet surveys have shown that fewer than half of Americans get a flu shot each year. L.A. Care wants to ensure that the numbers are better for Angelenos this flu season.
L.A. Care is holding flu shot clinics at five of its six Family Resource Centers.
“It takes up to two weeks to build immunity after you get a flu shot, so you don’t want to wait until the flu has reached your community,” said Richard Seidman, MD, MPH, L.A. Care Chief Medical Officer. “Everyone six months or older should get a flu shot unless otherwise directed by their doctor.”
This year, L.A. Care is also offering vaccination classes hoping to dispel myths that some might have heard about vaccine safety. Here are the details for the flu shot clinics and the vaccination classes.
FLU SHOT CLINICS
Lynwood Family Resource Center
Thursday, August 29
10:30 am – 2:30 pm
3200 E. Imperial Highway, Lynwood
Inglewood Family Resource Center
Monday, September 9
12:30 pm – 4:30 pm
3111 W. Century Boulevard, Inglewood
East L.A. Family Resource Center
Friday, September 20
1 pm – 5 pm
4803 Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles
Palmdale Family Resource Center
Wednesday, September 25
1 pm – 5 pm
2072 E. Palmdale Boulevard, Palmdale
Pacoima Family Resource Center
Thursday, September 26
2:30 pm – 6:30 pm
10807 San Fernando Road, Pacoima
VACCINATION CLASSES
Lynwood Family Resource Center
Thursday, August 29
10 am – 11 am
3200 E. Imperial Highway, Lynwood
Inglewood Family Resource Center
Monday, September 9
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
3111 W. Century Boulevard, Inglewood
East L.A. Family Resource Center
Wednesday, September 11
4 pm – 5 pm
4803 Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles
Pacoima Family Resource Center
Wednesday, September 18
3 pm – 4 pm
10807 San Fernando Road, Pacoima
Palmdale Family Resource Center
Wednesday, September 25
12 pm – 1 pm
2072 E. Palmdale Boulevard, Palmdale
Additional information about the flu and flu shot can be found here.