2024–2025 Flu Vaccine Prebook
This message is being sent to VFC providers, local public health officers, Tribal health directors, and key immunization program staff.
The window for prebooking influenza vaccine for the 2024–2025 influenza season will open on Friday, January 19, 2024, and will close at the end of the day on Friday, February 2, 2024. The vaccines available are listed below.
Following the October 5, 2023, Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting, FDA provided direction for manufacturers to plan for a transition to trivalent flu vaccine. As a result, flu vaccines available for the 2024–2025 season may reflect a mixture of trivalent and quadrivalent vaccines. If a mixture of vaccines is available, both trivalent and quadrivalent flu vaccines will be recommended to protect children and adults against influenza during the 2024–2025 season.
While the descriptions on the Wisconsin Immunization Registry's (WIR) pre-book order screen will reference quadrivalent vaccine, the CDC will not be confirming the actual valency of the 2024–2025 influenza season's vaccine until after this year's prebook has completed. Based on this, it is possible that state staff may fill some or all of a provider's order with trivalent vaccine depending upon what the manufacturers produce this 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 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 in the Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR). As a reminder, sign into WIR and on the top you will see "R/R." Select R/R and it will bring you to the next screen. 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
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 2024–2025 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.
Available vaccine for the 2024–2025 season
AstraZeneca, FluMist, 2–49 years, NDC 66019-0311-10, .2ml nasal sprayer
GSK, FluLaval, 6 months and older, NDC 19515-0810-52, .5 ml single dose syringe
Sanofi, Fluzone, 6 months and older, NDC 49281-0424-50, .5 ml single dose syringe
Seqirus, Flucelvax, 6 months and older, NDC 70461-0654-03, .5 ml single dose syringe
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