For example, employers might use lottery-based approaches to persuade workers to get their annual flu shots.
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We also do lots of vaccinations, things for travel vaccines, flu shots during the flu season.
Unlike most vaccines, flu shots are something that most of us end up getting every year.
Much of the growth can be attributed to the ability of pharmacists to administer flu shots.
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She wanted me to chart that I actually gave the Flu shots but I refused.
But in the meantime, we need to stick with the lame old flu shots we have.
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Lewis and Smith, both from Baltimore, Maryland, were among the first Americans to receive H1N1 flu shots.
New York State has already made the new H1N1 swine flu shots mandatory for health care workers.
His wife and children had their flu shots earlier in the year and did not become ill.
But even the Express Scripts imbroglio cannot stop the boost from customers coming in for flu shots.
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The viruses in flu shots are killed during the production of the vaccine, which means they cannot cause infection.
We know that flu shots really do work at slowing the virus down.
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The mayor urged residents to stay home from work or school if they are sick, and to get flu shots.
Last year, Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ) stopped making flu shots in favor of co-marketing FluMist.
Another possibility: make sure more flu shots are manufactured on U.S. soil.
The CDC recommends flu shots for everyone over 6 months of age.
The number of kids with CF who got flu shots, a basic step toward preventing related respiratory problems, jumped from 36% to 86%.
Through Feb. 5, CVS had given 4.8 million flu shots, more than double the 2.3 million flu shots given all last season, the company said.
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Occasionally it also cut deals to provide flu shots in supermarkets.
One example: the availability of flu shots at discounters like Walgreens.
The Saudi health minister went on television with his daughters, publicly getting their H1N1 flu shots, part of a campaign to alleviate fears about the vaccine.
While waiting in line to vote, Veronica Outlaw learned about the flu shots and walked to the makeshift clinic in the same building after casting her ballot.
Such delays in vaccination would be obviated if state laws did not limit the ability of pharmacists to give flu shots to those 18 years or older.
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This week, the first injectable H1N1 flu shots are to become available to complement the shipments of inhalable H1N1 vaccine that arrived last week at doctors' offices.
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For children, flu shots and other vaccinations will be covered.
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And flu shots can take two weeks to take effect.
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Flu shots are thought to be 80% effective at preventing infection against the virus contained within them, but health officials have to guess which strains of flu are circulating.
In a typical year, about 100 million people in the United States get flu shots and a fair amount of leftover vaccine must be destroyed at the end of the season.
Moreover, flu shots are highly effective at reducing the risk of people dying from the flu, according to Kenneth Bromberg, chairman of the department of pediatrics at The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
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