Gloucester County Government: Protect Yourself And Others This Holiday Season With A FREE Flu Shot

Press release from the Gloucester County Government:

December 1, 2021

The Gloucester County Department of Health is offering free flu clinics through the end of the year for all Gloucester County residents.

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Director Robert M. Damminger said, "Receiving a flu shot is the best way to keep you and others safe from contracting the flu. Getting together to celebrate the holidays is an important part of the holidays, you don’t want to get the flu to keep you from family and friends over the holiday!”

Commissioner Jim Jefferson, Liaison to the Department of Health, said, “Gloucester County proudly offers flu shots at no cost to our residents. If you need the flu shot, please just come to one of our conveniently scheduled clinics through November.”

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If you are attending a flu clinic, please remember to wear a mask and practice social distancing.

For updated information on the influenza virus, please visit: https://www.gloucestercountynj.gov/334/Influenza

This year we will be offering ONLY quadrivalent seasonal flu vaccine that contains:

• an A/Wisconsin/588/2019 (H1N1) pdm09-like virus

• an A/Cambodia/e0826360/2020 (H3N2)-like virus

• a B/Washington/02/2019- like virus (B/Victoria lineage)

• a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (B/Yamagata lineage)

Check out the December schedule:

Thursday – December 2, 2021

1 PM to 2:30 PM