The information below was sent last week. If you have already completed your prebook, thank you! This is to remind you that the deadline is approaching! If you have not completed your prebook for influenza vaccine for next season for both VFC and if you are a local health department that conducts VFC and school mass exercise clinics, you only have until close of business on Thursday, February 2, 2023. 

Wisconsin Vaccines for Children Program (VFC)

2023–2024 flu vaccine prebook

The window for prebooking influenza vaccine for the 2023–2024 influenza season will open on Thursday, January 19, 2023, and will close on Thursday, February 2, 2023. The vaccines available are listed below. The only change this year is Sanofi's Fluzone; it is not available in a single dose vial. It is only available in the prefilled syringe presentation.

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 VFC Program that you offer all Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (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

You must place your order on the Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR) . As a reminder:

1. Sign into WIR.
2. On the top you will see "R/R."
3. Select R/R and it will bring you to the next screen.
4. Under "VFC Renewal and Registration Forms" you will select the link Begin Influenza Prebooking Request.

Remember, you are ordering doses, not number of boxes.

Complete instructions can be printed by selecting the instructions for creating prebook requests link under VFC Renewal and Registration Forms.

Available vaccine for the 2023–2024 season

AstraZeneca, FluMist, 2–49 years, NDC 66019-0310-10, .2ml nasal sprayer

GSK, Fluarix, 6 months and older, NDC 58160-0909-52, .5 ml single dose syringe

GSK, FluLaval, 6 months and older, NDC 19515-0814-52, .5 ml single dose syringe

Sanofi, Fluzone, 6 months and older, NDC 49281-0423-50, .5 ml single dose syringe

Seqirus, Flucelvax, 6 months and older, NDC 70461-0323-03, .5 ml single dose syringe

Local health departments and mass vaccination exercise clinics

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 2023–2024 school year, in order to determine the amount and type of vaccine you wish to prebook for these efforts. Vaccine needed for these exercises must be ordered in the 2023–2024 MVE Prebook window in WIR (by February 2, 2023.)

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.