Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Health & Society
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Health & Society

Get Vaccinated Wednesday, Oct. 11, and Have a Healthy Winter

Friday, October 6, 2017, By Cyndi Moritz
Share
faculty and staffhealth and wellnessStudents

Flu season in the United States can begin as early as this month. It typically peaks in January or February. The single best way to prevent getting the flu is to get the vaccine. It won’t protect you against every strain of flu, but it is formulated to protect against the most common strains that are going around. And even if you get a strain that you’re not vaccinated for, you will get a milder case than if you weren’t vaccinated at all, says Michele Frontale, supervising pharmacist for the Health Center.

flu shot reminderHere on campus, you can begin your flu protection early by getting vaccinated at the free flu clinic for students, staff and faculty on Oct. 11 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in Flanagan Gymnasium. No appointment is necessary—just bring your SU ID.

Not only will you be helping yourself, but you will be helping the University’s Health Services and Onondaga County.

“The University is a point of distribution for the county,” says Frontale. “We need to see how well we would perform if there was an emergency, such as an outbreak of a rare disease or a terrorist attack using a biological weapon. The more people we can vaccinate in a short period, the better.”

Frontale adds that the clinic will be staffed by personnel from the health center and from the county health department.

This year, getting vaccinated at the Oct. 11 clinic will get you extra protection, because Health Services is using a quadrivalent vaccine. That means the vaccine is formulated to protect against the four most common strains of flu that are predicted to be going around this year. The trivalent vaccine that was used in previous years protected against just the three strains predicted to be the most common.

  • Author

Cyndi Moritz

  • Recent
  • Study Abroad and the Academic Experience
    Thursday, September 21, 2023, By Wendy S. Loughlin
  • Education Expert: Massive Public Investment Needed to Solve Teacher Shortages 
    Wednesday, September 20, 2023, By Christopher Munoz
  • University Football Films Collection Now Available Online
    Tuesday, September 19, 2023, By Cristina Hatem
  • Syracuse Views Fall 2023
    Tuesday, September 19, 2023, By Christine Weber
  • 7 New Representatives Added to the Board of Trustees
    Monday, September 18, 2023, By News Staff

More In Health & Society

International Drug Policy Academy Offers a Unique Opportunity for Students Interested in Addiction Studies

Needing one more class or an independent study to complete a master’s degree in public health, Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics student Emily Graham turned to Public Health Professor Dessa Bergen-Cico for advice and Bergen-Cico offered the opportunity…

Hendricks Chapel Dean, Chaplains and Students Attend Parliament of the World’s Religions

Representatives from Hendricks Chapel recently attended the Parliament of the World’s Religions, held in August in Chicago. This year’s theme was “A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom and Human Rights.” More than 7,000 participants from more than 95 countries, representing…

Roundtable: 3 School of Education Alumni Define ‘Human Thriving’ in the Context of Global Diversity

“Human thriving” is among the areas of distinctive excellence enumerated in the University’s 2023 Academic Strategic Plan. This concept is inspired by the words of Chancellor Erastus Haven. In 1871, he charged Syracuse students “to thrive here, to learn here,…

Lerner Center and Maxwell X Lab Join Sheriff’s Office to Reduce Illicit Drugs’ Impact

The Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health and Maxwell X Lab have partnered with the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office on an initiative aimed at reducing the impact of opioids and other illicit drugs. The two centers, both…

PAIA Doctoral Student Receives Grant for SNAP Research

Clay Fannin, a doctoral student in the Maxwell School’s Department of Public Administration and International Affairs, has received a $25,000 grant from Tufts University to support his dissertation research on the impacts of COVID-era changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • X
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2023 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.