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YOUNGSTOWN - Mahoning County Public Health will be holding flu shot clinics at various locations across the county.
Based on the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) recommendations, the following should receive a flu shot: Everyone 6 months of age and older; people at high risk of developing flu-related complications; children ages 6 months to 5 years old; adults 50 years of age and older; pregnant women and women up to two weeks postpartum; residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities; chronic medical conditions such as asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, blood disorders, diabetes, extreme obesity, kidney, liver, or endocrine disorders, weakened immune systems due to medications and/or diseases such as cancer, HIV or AIDS, or medications such as chronic steroid use or long-term aspirin use in people younger than 19 years of age.
To obtain a flu shot at a Mahoning County Public Health clinic, just walk in, no appointment is necessary. The shot will be billed to insurance - bring insurance cards, driver's license, Medicaid and Medicare cards so the cost of the vaccine can be billed; most private insurances are accepted. Mahoning County Public Health is a Vaccines for Children Program provider and will have limited opportunities for children that are uninsured or underinsured to receive the vaccine free of charge.
Available flu vaccines include ages 6 months and up – Quadrivalent (4 flu virus strains), ages 65 years and older -High dose quadrivalent (4 flu virus strains) and ages 18 years and older- Egg free (cell based) quadrivalent (4 flu virus strains).
Local clinics include Canfield United Methodist Church, 27 S. Broad St., from 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 4; Berlin Township Building Weidemier House, 15823 Akron-Canfield Road, from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 13; and Sebring Administration Building, 135 E. Ohio Ave., from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 25.