1. How is the free and self-paid influenza vaccination time this year arranged?
Ans: The start date of the free influenza vaccination is September 13, 2022, and the deadline is November 30, 2022. The self-paid vaccine is expected to be vaccinated in late September and will last until February 2023. Each district will carry out vaccination in succession based on the vaccine supply situation.
2. Which people in Beijing can enjoy preferential policies for free influenza vaccination?
Answer: There are two main groups of people who can enjoy free vaccination:
1. Elderly people with the city's resident ID card/social security card and are over 60 years old (the date of birth is before December 31, 1962);
2. All primary and secondary school students in school, including domestic and foreign students in primary schools, ordinary middle schools, secondary schools, vocational high schools, technical schools, work-study schools, and special education schools.
3. How effective is the flu vaccination?
Ans: Our city has implemented the people-friendly policy of free influenza vaccination for 15 years, with more than 21 million people vaccinated. The city's concentrated fever epidemic has decreased significantly, and the number of people who are infectious for influenza-related diseases has decreased. Facts have proved that the flu vaccine is safe and reliable and has a protective effect.
4. Where can I get the free flu vaccine?
Answer: The detailed list and address of free influenza vaccination clinics in each district can be checked through official websites such as the Beijing Municipal Health Commission and the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, or call the 12320 public health service hotline for inquiries.
The elderly bring a valid resident ID card/social security card to the community health service center for vaccination.
Primary and secondary school students are uniformly organized and vaccinated by their school.
5. When can I get the self-paid influenza vaccine?
Answer : Starting from late September 2022, all vaccination clinics in our city will provide citizens with self-paid influenza vaccine appointments and vaccination services based on the vaccine supply situation. The vaccination service will continue until the end of February 2023.
6. How to make an appointment for self-paid influenza vaccine?
Ans: Each vaccination clinic has its own appointment channel, including telephone appointments and on-site registration. Some clinics can make appointments through WeChat public accounts or other online channels. If you need to check the appointment method of a certain outpatient clinic, you can call the 12320 public health service hotline, or check it on the official website of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission and the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, you need to remind you that if the line is busy making a phone call, please be patient.
7. Can non-Beijing people get vaccinated with influenza? How to get the flu vaccine?
Answer : Primary and secondary school students who are not from Beijing and are studying in Beijing can receive free flu vaccines in a centralized manner according to the unified arrangements of the school. Children from Beijing can make an appointment to receive their own influenza vaccine at places where they are usually vaccinated. Adults from Beijing can choose a flu vaccination clinic nearby to make an appointment for self-paid influenza vaccine. The address and contact number of the vaccination clinic can be checked through the official website of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission and the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
8. Which is better, the influenza trivalent vaccine or the tetravalent vaccine?
Ans: Compared with the trivalent influenza vaccine, the tetravalent vaccine adds an influenza B subtype. Trivalent can prevent 3 types of influenza viruses, and 4 types of tetravalent can prevent 4 types. Both vaccines can prevent influenza virus infection. There is no preferred recommendation. You can choose either according to your own situation.
9. Can people who have received influenza within one year be vaccinated with the flu vaccine?
Ans: Can be inoculated.A previous history of influenza is not a taboo for vaccination. In addition, influenza viruses are prone to mutate, so it is possible to prevent influenza viruses that are prevalent in the season.
10. I am taking anti-influenza virus drugs. Can I get vaccinated?
Ans: If you are in the acute infection stage and you are using anti-influenza virus drugs for treatment, you cannot be vaccinated during the treatment period; if there are no other vaccination contraindications after recovery, you can be vaccinated. If the anti-influenza virus drug is currently used to prevent influenza, there are no symptoms of fever or other discomforts, and there are no contraindications for vaccination, you can get vaccinated.
11. Who needs to get the flu vaccine the most?
Ans: Some people have a higher risk of complications after suffering from influenza, and some people have frequent contact with people at high risk of influenza, and they all need to get influenza vaccination.
The population at a higher risk of complications after influenza includes: infants and young children aged 6-59 months; people over 60 years old; patients with specific chronic diseases (including chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, liver and renal insufficiency, hematologic diseases, neurological diseases, neuromuscular dysfunction, metabolic diseases (including diabetes), immunosuppressive diseases or immunocompromised; women preparing to get pregnant during the flu season.
People who have frequent contact with high-risk groups: staff in nursing homes, nursing homes and other chronic disease care facilities; family members and caregivers of infants under 6 months of age; 60 Family members and caregivers of elderly people over the age of age; family members and caregivers of other high-risk influenza; medical staff.
12. Who is not suitable for influenza vaccination?
Ans: The following groups are not suitable for influenza vaccination: People who are allergic to the ingredients contained in the vaccine, including auxiliary materials, formaldehyde, and Triton X-100, etc.; other severe allergic constitution; people with a history of Guillenbarre syndrome; patients with uncontrolled epilepsy and other progressive neurological diseases.
In addition, severe patients with various diseases should be used with caution; patients with acute fever, acute infection, and acute attacks of chronic diseases should be vaccinated after recovering from the disease. Different types of vaccines from different manufacturers, the vaccination contraindications listed in the instructions are slightly different. For specific information, please refer to the vaccine instructions.
13. Why do we need to get influenza vaccine every year?
Answer: Because influenza virus mutates very quickly, it changes almost every year, and the antibodies induced by different variant strains have no cross-protective effect or weak cross-protective effect on different strains. The World Health Organization (WHO) closely tracks the mutation of influenza viruses and regularly publishes strains for vaccine manufacturing every year. Influenza vaccines contain three or four strains. Every year, the epidemic strains of influenza viruses mutate, and the corresponding strain formulas of the influenza vaccine also change accordingly. Therefore, we need to get the latest influenza vaccine every year to achieve the preventive effect.
14. What should you pay attention to before getting a flu vaccine?
Answer: Before getting a vaccination, you should make the following preparations: understand the contraindications of influenza vaccine; understand your physical condition. If you are not very clear about whether it is a person who is prohibited and uses influenza vaccine with caution, you should consult the doctor at the vaccination clinic and let the outpatient doctor help you determine whether you can get vaccinated; have a good rest and keep your body safe. Stay in a good physiological state; learn about the distribution location of the vaccination clinic from the local disease prevention and control department and get vaccinated nearby.
In addition, when going to the vaccination clinic, you should comply with the epidemic prevention and control regulations of the vaccination clinic, and cooperate with the completion of epidemic prevention measures such as temperature measurement, scanning code inspection.
15. What should you pay attention to when getting vaccinated?
Answer : Avoid emptying; ask the outpatient doctor for the informed consent form for vaccination and fill in the informed consent form truthfully; after vaccination, you must stay at the vaccination site for 30 minutes.
16. What else should I do after getting vaccinated?
Answer: Ensure the cleanliness of the vaccination site; pay attention to the signs within one day after vaccination; if there is continuous fever, you can go to the hospital nearby and report to the vaccination unit.
2022 Beijing Influenza Vaccination Outpatient Information
(can be checked at the website of Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
▲2022 Beijing Influenza Vaccination Outpatient Information Publicity
Source: Beijing Release
Editor: Chenchen
