Information for Health Professionals
exclamation square light icon What You Need to Know for the 2020-2021 Flu Season
It’s likely that flu viruses and the virus that causes COVID-19 will both be spreading this fall and winter, making it more important than ever that ALL healthcare workers get a flu vaccine!
Note: “ Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2020-2021 Influenza Season” has been published. CDC recommends annual influenza vaccination for everyone 6 months and older with any licensed, age-appropriate flu vaccine (IIV, RIV4, or LAIV4) with no preference expressed for any one vaccine over another. More information about the upcoming 2020-2021 flu season is also available.
The pages listed below offer public health and health care professionals key information about vaccination, infection control, prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of seasonal influenza.
Overview and map of current influenza activity in the U.S.
Coverage data and past trends of flu vaccination coverage in the U.S.
- Transcript for Widespread Flu Activity Update
- Public Health Grand Rounds: Flu Season Update
- Interim Immunization Recommendations for Individuals Displaced by a Disaster
- Medical Office Telephone Evaluation of Patients with Possible Influenza
- Communications to Health Care Providers
- Toolkit for Long-Term Care Employers
- Flu Activity and Surveillance
Current & past flu activity - The Pink Book. Chapter 12: Influenza
- Annals of Internal Medicine: Influenzaexternal icon
- Vaccines and Immunizations
- Provider Resources for Vaccine Conversations with Parents
- Avian Influenza Guidance
- Clinician Guidance for Variant Virus Infections
- International Reagent Resourceexternal icon
Reagent users: tools and information on influenza and influenza virus detection
