City of Taos issued the following announcement on Oct. 1.
The Town of Taos, in conjunction with Holy Cross Hospital, the NM Dept. of Health and our local clinics and physicians are conducting a survey to determine how many residents have received the annual flu immunization shot, anticipate getting it, or if there are informational, financial or logistical barriers to residents being able to get vaccinated.
Our community has done a great job against COVID-19 but as cold and flu season arrives, school and college begin, winter-related tourism increases, stores and restaurants open to greater numbers of people and cold weather sets in and we all head indoors, we now want to increase our efforts to reduce non-COVID respiratory diseases such as the cold and flu to the greatest extent possible so as not to overload our medical system and to decrease the susceptibility of our residents to COVID and other more impactful health issues.
The information collected by this survey will help us be better prepared than in prior years for the fall and winter flu season by developing an effective public health strategy by knowing how many people are getting vaccinated, how much vaccine is needed, how best to reach people with the vaccine, and how to answer your questions, concerns and to get accurate information out about the current flu vaccine, including what it can and can’t do and when to get it. Ideally, this test run will help us be fully prepared as a community if and when a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is available for the public.
Your input is critical to making Taos a safer, healthier community.
Please here to take the survey
All answers are reduced to randomized anonymous data and cannot be traced to any individual.
If you have any questions about the flu vaccine how or where to get a seasonal flu shot for you or your family, please check our website at or contact us at (575) 751-2019.
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Taos
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