Flu Shot Locations Across The City

If you haven’t already received a vaccination, you have one week left to get your free flu shot at a number of clinics set up around the city.

Here’s a list of the times and locations:

Flu Vaccination Clinics:

January 12 – Sherway Gardens, 25 The West Mall, 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
January 13 – Sherway Gardens, 25 The West Mall, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
January 15 – East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
January 16 – North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge St., 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
January 17 – Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 The West Mall, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
January 18 – Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Dr., 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Here are some other ways you can prevent the flu, courtesy of Ontario’s Ministry of Health:

Washing your hands thoroughly and often may reduce your chances of getting sick.
. Use soap and warm running water.
. Wash hands often and especially after using the washroom, before and after eating, coming into contact with high touch surfaces like doorknobs, using public transit and after blowing your nose or sneezing.
. Keep an alcohol-based hand sanitizer (gel or wipes) handy at work, home, and in the car.

There are other precautions you can take to help prevent getting the flu and spreading it to others:
. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you sneeze or cough.
. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve – not into your hands.
. Put used tissues in the wastebasket immediately.
. Avoid sharing food, eating utensils, towels or handkerchiefs, especially with children as they engage in activities that more frequently transmit disease.

Anyone 65 years of age and older who is getting a flu shot should also get the pneumococcal vaccine at the same time to help prevent Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD), if they have not already had the pneumococcal vaccine.

Facts about Children, the Flu and the Vaccination, courtesy of Ontario’s Ministry of Health:

Healthy children, particularly those 6 to 23 months of age, should receive the vaccine as they can develop influenza illness and serious complications. Only children 6 months of age and older can be vaccinated.
. Children under 9 years old getting vaccinated for the first time need two doses of vaccine – the second dose at least one month after the first.
. Children and teenagers who have been treated with aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) for long periods may have an increased risk of developing Reye’s syndrome if they get the flu.
. Children with chronic medical conditions are at increased risk of flu-related complications.
. The vaccine is safe and well tolerated by healthy children. There is no evidence that it can cause neurological conditions such as autism, attention deficit disorder or hyperactivity disorder.