2025–2026 Flu Vaccine Prebook
This message is being sent to Vaccines for Children (VFC) providers, local health officers, Tribal health directors, and Immunization Program staff.
The window for prebooking influenza vaccine for the 2025-2026 influenza season will open on January 21, 2025, and will close at the end of the day on January 31, 2025. The vaccines available are listed below. Orders not received by the end of the business day on January 31 may not be accepted.
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). Sign into WIR, select your organization, and on the top left of the screen, select "R/R." In the next screen, locate "VFC Renewal and Registration Forms" and select "Begin Influenza Prebooking Request." Please keep in mind that you are ordering doses, not number of boxes.
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. Local health departments and Tribal health offices 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 clinics in the fall or winter of the 2025-2026 school year 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.
Please note that the vaccine funding used for the mass vaccination exercises is from federal Section 317 funding and is limited. If the requests for vaccine for these exercises surpass the allocated budget, the Immunization Program will need to reduce orders. Health departments will be notified if this is the case.
If you are holding mass vaccination clinics, a separate order is required during prebooking. For mass vaccination orders, select (2) "Begin Mass Vaccination Exercise Prebooking Request."
 Available vaccine for the 2025–2026 season
Please note that all products are trivalent.
- AstraZeneca, FluMist, 2-49 years, NDC 66019-0312-10, 0.2 ml nasal sprayer
- GSK, FluLaval, 6 months and older, NDC 19515-0904-52, 0.5 ml single dose syringe
- GSK, Fluarix, 6 months and older, NDC 58160-0912-52, 0.5 ml single dose syringe
- Sanofi, Fluzone, 6 months and older, NDC 49281-0425-50, 0.5 ml single dose syringe
- Seqirus, Flucelvax, 6 months and older, NDC 70461-0655-03, 0.5 ml single dose syringe
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