Are your employees protected?
Providing flu shots for employees is the best way to prevent flu from spreading throughout your workplace, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Besides showing that you care about your employees’ health, fewer employees will get sick and you’ll see less missed work because of illnesses.
The CDC recommends an annual flu shot for anyone six months and older. The vaccines are formulated to best defend against the expected flu virus that will affect people this year.
Schedule your on-site flu shots by contacting Jennifer Carmack, OCCMed Director, at 731-984-8400 or jennifer@physiciansqualitycare.com.
The last flu pandemic
It was just 10 years ago – 2009 – when a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged and created a flu pandemic. Detected first in the United States, it spread quickly across the United States and the world.
This new H1N1 virus contained a unique combination of influenza genes not previously identified. Few young people had any existing immunity, but a third of those over 60 did have antibodies likely because of an older H1N1 virus earlier in their lives.
Between April 2009 and April 2010, the CDC estimated there were 61 million cases of the flu, about 274,000 hospitalizations and 12,500 deaths from this new virus in the United States.
Ten years later, work continues to better understand influenza, prevent disease and prepare for the next pandemic.
