You can now get the flu vaccine at home
Instead of going To receive the annual flu vaccine, many people in the United States can send it to their door to send themselves at home.
From today, Flumist Astrazeneca is available through online pharmacy in 34 states. Flumist is not a new vaccine. It was initially approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2003 and was previously applicable only by a health care expert. But last September, the FDA said the vaccine could be confirmed.
This is Astrazneca’s first appearance in the direct drug to the consumer-directed by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lily to sell their popular GLP-1 drugs for diabetes and weight management to patients.
“We have recognized that people’s daily lives were crowded than ever, and we knew we had to meet people who faced real -life real life,” said Tonya Wealafana, Vice President of Medicine and Scientific Affairs at Astrazneca. “The Floomist House is designed to eliminate traditional barriers to vaccination, such as clinic visit planning, expectation in queue and fear of needles.”
Astrazneca hopes that a home offer will help increase the flu vaccination rate. According to disease control and prevention centers, only about 47 percent of adults are vaccinated against the flu. Among children, the amount of flu vaccination along with other common childhood vaccines decreases. Since April 26 this year, 49.2 percent of children have received influenza vaccination – lower than 53.4 percent at the same time as the previous season, per CDC.
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The CDC classified the 2024-2025 influenza season as high intensity in all age groups of the United States, resulting in at least 610,000 hospitalization and 27,000. This was the most severe flu season since the H1N1 swine flu in 2009.
September 2024 Astrazeneca approval based on a study with vaccine recipients and caregivers to evaluate whether the use instructions are properly designed in such a way that they can safely and effectively use the vaccine.
This vaccine contains a weak shape of the live influenza virus and protects against four types of flu. This has been approved for ages 2 to 49. For people under the age of 18, it must be managed by a caregiver.
To order, customers need to complete the medical screening questionnaire. A licensed health care provider checks each submission to determine the competence. After verification and insurance approval, the vaccine will be sent and sent directly to the buyer’s house on the selected date. Flumist is covered by most insurance programs, but consumers have to pay $ 8.99.
Astrazneca says Flumist is not yet available in all states because of local pharmaceutical laws, but the company plans to provide home spray to all correlation countries in the future. The vaccine will continue to be available in the office of physicians and pharmacies by health care professionals across the country.
