Free Flu Shots For All Employees!
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As flu season fast approaches, our workplace is ready with free flu shots, which are offered to all interested employees. It’s a popular benefit. Employees cheerfully line-up and wait their turn!
Heading to our conference room is way more convenient than making a doctor’s appointment or stopping by a wellness clinic to obtain the vaccine. All that is required by employees is to take care of some paperwork (filling in a form asking if we have any allergies, currently have a fever, etc.) and to read a sheet listing all the possible side effects and risks, “which are usually mild and go away on their own.” After reviewing our completed paperwork, the registered nurse provided the flu shot.
As always, it’s a good opportunity to educate people about flu shots and to correct commonly held misconceptions and myths. The inactivated flu vaccine does not contain live flu virus, for example, so that it’s a fact that “you cannot get the flu from this vaccine.” More information about the flu and flu vaccines is available at the website for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).