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News|Articles|October 18, 2021
A Drive-through Flu Shot Clinic: Is it Time to Try One?
Author(s)Terry Brenneman, MD
The traditional flu shot clinic with waiting rooms full won't work this year. One practice planned its own drive-through flu vaccination clinic. Here's how.
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Last year the COVID-19 pandemic added a wrinkle to my pediatric office's plans to administer more than 1,000 influenza vaccines to our patients and their parents.
In previous years we would have put families in an exam room, administered the shot or live nasal vaccine, and sent everyone back out through the waiting room packed with other families waiting their turn.
We revised all that here in Raleigh, NC, last year with our drive-through flu clinic. Here's how to do it if your considering it this year.
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