2021-2022 Flu Vaccine Prebook:
The window for prebooking influenza vaccine for the 2021-2022 influenza season will open on January 21, 2020. Please complete your prebook as soon as you can. Due to COVID-19, we are not putting a "close" date for the time to place your prebook order, but are urging you to submit your prebook by close of business on February 1, if possible. This will help us get as close as possible to an accurate count of number of doses needed by VFC providers before the deadline for states to prebook influenza vaccine with the CDC. Keep in mind that you will ultimately have to place this order (probably by mid-June) if you want to receive influenza vaccine for the 2021-22 season.
Determining Amount of Vaccine to Order:
When preparing to submit your prebook order, you should order enough vaccine to cover your cohort of children that are eligible to receive VFC vaccine. Before placing your order, we strongly urge you to review your practice's influenza rates and challenge your practice to increase the number of individuals vaccinated by at least 5%.To reach these goals, it will be important for you to review how and when you communicate with your patients regarding influenza vaccine, vaccine availability throughout the flu season, and the importance and benefits of being vaccinated, particularly for high risk patients.
It is a requirement of the Vaccines for Children Program that you offer all ACIP recommended vaccines to your eligible children and it is important to have sufficient vaccine available so that all can be protected.
If you are not the one responsible for ordering state-supplied vaccines for your clinic, please share this information with the appropriate staff.
Ordering Instructions:
Complete instructions can be printed by clicking on the "instructions for creating prebook requests" link under VFC Renewal and Registration Forms.
You must place your order on the Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR). As a reminder, sign into WIR and on the top you will see "R/R." Click on R/R and it will bring you to the next screen. Under "VFC Renewal and Registration Forms" you will click on the link "Begin Influenza Prebooking Request." Remember, you are ordering doses, not number of boxes.
Available Vaccine for the 2021-2022 Season:
AstraZeneca, FluMist, 2–49 Years, NDC 66019-0308-10, .2ml nasal sprayer
GSK, Fluarix, 6 months and older, NDC 58160-0887-52, .5 ml single dose syringe
GSK, FluLaval, 6 months and older, NDC 19515-0818-52, .5 ml single dose syringe
Sanofi, Fluzone, 6 months and older, NDC 49281-0421-10, .5 ml single dose vial
Sanofi, Fluzone, 6 months and older, NDC 49281-0421-50, .5 ml single dose syringe
Seqirus, Flucelvax, 4 years and older, NDC 70461-0321-03, .5 ml single dose syringe
Local Health Departments and Mass Vaccination Exercise
The Wisconsin Immunization Program and the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Health Care (OPEHC) are partnering again to allow health departments and tribal health offices the opportunity to conduct mass vaccination exercises for pediatric patients using state-supplied influenza vaccine. Influenza vaccine will be the only vaccine available for mass vaccination exercises. Therefore, local health departments and tribes that wish to conduct mass vaccination exercises (in accordance with the guidelines for such exercises from OPEHC) should reach out to schools in their jurisdiction to determine their interest in having influenza clinic(s) in the fall or winter of the 2021-2022 school year, in order to determine the amount and type of vaccine you wish to prebook for these efforts. Please keep in mind that influenza clinics should not be scheduled in September or early October because vaccine is not always available at that time.
Window Closing:
Due to COVID-19, we will be keeping the window for ordering open for several weeks to give you time to plan for mass vaccination clinics. We understand that your bandwidth is limited right now, but need you to think about whether you are going to do mass exercise clinics in the fall, and if you are, your order needs to be placed sooner rather than later.
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