明尼苏达州：Minneapolis退伍军人医疗系统办免预约流感疫苗活动，14处网点三个周四下午开放
美国退伍军人事务部（VA）Minneapolis 医疗系统10月19日发布公告，将在接下来三个周四下午，为已登记的退伍军人提供免预约流感疫苗接种服务。
活动定于10月22日、29日和11月5日下午1时至3时举行，地点包括位于 Minneapolis 的医疗中心主院区（One Veterans Drive）以及全部13家社区门诊诊所，覆盖 Albert Lea、Ely、Hibbing、Mankato、Maplewood 等地，部分网点位于威斯康星州境内。医疗中心主院区在活动期间还可同时接种新冠疫苗；退伍军人也可在常规就诊时接种流感疫苗，或致电预约专门的疫苗门诊。
该系统健康促进与疾病预防项目经理 Megan Daman 表示，活动期间无需预约，到场即可在下午1时至3时接种。退伍军人事务部提醒，流感病毒可通过咳嗽、喷嚏和交谈传播，感染者在症状出现前约一天至发病后五天内均可传染他人，每年接种流感疫苗是预防流感的最佳方式。该医疗系统共在15处地点为超过10万名退伍军人提供医疗服务。（GSM 据美国退伍军人事务部 Minneapolis 医疗系统新闻稿报道）
Minnesota: Minneapolis VA Offers Walk-In Flu Shots at 14 Sites on Three Thursday Afternoons
The Minneapolis VA Health Care System in Minnesota announced on October 19 that it will offer walk-in flu shot events for enrolled Veterans over the next three Thursday afternoons.
The clinics will run from 1 to 3 p.m. on October 22, October 29 and November 5 at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, One Veterans Drive, and at all 13 Community Based Outpatient Clinics, including sites in Albert Lea, Ely, Hibbing, Mankato and Maplewood, with several clinics located across the state line in Wisconsin. COVID-19 vaccines will also be available at the walk-in clinics at the Medical Center. Veterans may also receive flu and COVID-19 vaccines during a regularly scheduled VA appointment, or schedule an appointment just for vaccines.
"There is no need to make an appointment to receive a flu vaccine during these events," said Megan Daman, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program manager at the Minneapolis VA. "Veterans can simply walk in during these events from 1 to 3 p.m." The VA notes that flu viruses spread when an infected person coughs, sneezes, talks or laughs, and that people with flu can spread the virus beginning about one day before symptoms appear and for up to five days after becoming sick. The Minneapolis VA Health Care System serves more than 100,000 Veterans at 15 locations. (GSM, based on the Minneapolis VA Health Care System news release)
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