Who should receive a flu shot based on CDC recommendations?
• Everyone 6 months of age and older should get a flu vaccine every season
• 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 2 weeks postpartum
*Residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities
*People with 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.
How to obtain a flu shot at a Mahoning County Public Health clinic?
• Just walk in, no appointment is necessary
• We bill 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 2025-2026 flu vaccines will all be trivalent and will protect against an H1N1, H3N2 and a B/Victoria lineage virus. MCPH will have the following vaccines available:
*Ages 6 months and up - Trivalent (3 flu virus strains)
*Ages 65 years and older; Solid organ transplant recipients age 18 through 64 years who are on immunosuppression medication regimens -High dose trivalent (3 flu virus strains)
*Ages 6 months and older- Egg free (cell based) trivalent (3 flu virus strains)
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