As flu season approaches, doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and others are beginning to offer flu shot clinics.
Sam’s Club pharmacies across the country — 486 of them — will be administering flu shots this month.
For $20, shoppers may receive shots Oct. 18 and 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Oct. 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Membership is not required to receive a shot.
InTulsa, Omni Medical Group, part of St. John Health System, will host clinics throughout northeastern Oklahoma today through Nov. 13.
Omni is providing the shots for $30 each. Omni patients with CommunityCare Senior or Medicare are eligible to have the cost of the shot covered.
Click on the list of locations and dates here.
We’ll run additional locations as we find out about them. Please e-mail them to jraymond@oklahoman.com.
According the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 90 million Americans contract the flu each year at a cost of nearly 70 million lost work days.
Jeff Raymond, Medical Writer