Wyoming | For healthcare workers, it has typically been facility policy for years for all patient-facing employees to get a influenza vaccine - for years.
Here's the current season's influenza vaccines:
https://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4072.pdf
Here's an example of a widely used flu vaccine, which I've used for influenza vaccinations in the last couple of weeks for hundreds of people. Its age range (from 6 months to the elderly) makes our public vaccine clinics very easy to run. There's no possibility of giving a "high dosage" vaccine to someone younger. You need only ask "is this person 6 months or older?" and if the answer is 'yes,' then you can administer the vaccine.
https://gskpro.com/en-us/products/fluarix-quadrivalent/
As for preservatives (Thimerosal, etc) - those are typically found in only multi-dose vial vaccine products. If you look for vaccines that are administered from a single-dose syringe that the administrator has to attach a needle to, you don't find preservatives in those products. The Fluarix vaccine I pointed at above is an example of such a vaccine. We get them in a "flat pack" 10-to-a-box package, and they're pre-loaded at the factory. You need to attach a Luer-lock needle to the syringe after removing the protective cover on the syringe, and you're good to go. |