Town Of Reading To Hold Flu Vaccine Clinic This Week

READING, MA — The Town of Reading Health Department will hold a community flu clinic Thursday, Nov. 2, from 2 to 4:45 p.m. at the Reading Public Library at 64 Middlesex Ave.

Vaccines will be available for all those 3 years and older.

More information and a registration link is available here.

The clinic will have Fluzone and Fluzone 65 vaccines available.

The Massachusetts Department of Public recommends annual influenza vaccination for everyone 6 months and older with any licensed, age-appropriate flu vaccine (IIV, RIV4, or LAIV4) with no preference expressed for any one vaccine over another.

For people 65 years and older, the department noted that three flu vaccines are preferentially recommended: Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent vaccine, Flublok Quadrivalent recombinant flu vaccine, and Fluad Quadrivalent adjuvanted flu vaccine.

More information is available via the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.