Let's Fight Flu Together!
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Once again, PTA is working with Novartis Vaccines and Flu Busters, a leading provider of on-site vaccinations, to provide convenient access to influenza vaccinations in your local communities through the Let’s Fight Flu Together campaign.
PTA, Novartis Vaccines and Flu Busters are working together in an unprecedented nationwide campaign to combat influenza (“the flu”) and provide children, families and members of the community the opportunity to get vaccinated against influenza.
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 200,000 U.S. residents are hospitalized each year with the flu, and 36,000 die from complications of the flu. For more facts about influenza go to www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/disease.htm. The single most effective way to prevent the flu is to get vaccinated every year.
Through the Let’s Fight Flu Together! campaign, PTAs can lead the way in helping to prevent the spread of influenza this year by providing local, council, district, regional and state PTAs with an opportunity to help keep families healthy during the upcoming flu season. As an incentive, the State PTA in whose state a clinic is held will receive $1.00 from Flu Busters for each vaccination administered as part of this program, and the Local Unit hosting the clinic will receive $4.00 from Flu Busters for each vaccination administered as part of this program.
Starting now, PTA leaders can register with Flu Busters to host flu clinics in their schools and communities (www.pta.org/flushotclinics). All local and state PTA Leaders are receiving a kit that they can use to promote and host a flu vaccination clinic on-site at their local schools. PTA Leaders will need to secure a place for the clinic, provide tables and chairs, and help promote the event. Flu Busters will coordinate with the local PTA hosting the event and handle all other clinic logistics.
Resources
In response to the requests from the PTA webinar, PTA is providing the following:
- The PowerPoint presentation used on the webinar.
- Web banner for you to place on your PTA’s website to promote the campaign. Please link it to www.pta.org/flushotclinics
We hope you will find these resources useful as we roll out this important campaign.
Novartis Fluvirin Drug Insert (pdf)
Alabama PTA
The Alabama PTA is the strongest statewide organization working exclusively on behalf of children and youth. Founded in 1911, Alabama PTA's primary objective is to strengthen the family unit through parent involvement.