Comments on: Free Flu Shots For Unemployed & Uninsured

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:35:02 +0000

CVS told me all I had to do was print out a statement of my unemployment earnings on line.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:31:23 +0000

I called the toll free # for CVS, which transfered me to a local CVS, the person told me she knew nothing about free flu shots. I asked to speak to her manger and he knew nothing about them but told me he would call the main office to find out. He asked if I could call back in an hour, I did so. He said the shots were starting in Oct. but the finishing touches were not finished yet but if I could call back the first of next week he would have all the info. He was very helpful in the situation.He was just surprised that the public knew about this campain before the phar. tecks did. If you have called your local CVS and they knew nothing about this have them to call the main office or call the end of the month when they will know.

By: Becca

Becca — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:48:19 +0000

They LIED! You must get a voucher from another company AND be a card carrying member of the damn clinic to get it free. Plus, the smart ass young man in their customer relations department told me to get a job. NOT Happy!

By: cynthia pullin

cynthia pullin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:41:31 +0000

Were do i go to get a free flu shot. I went to our local CVS and the pharmiciest said they didn’t give free flu shots????????????

By: Mysti Distance

Mysti Distance — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:28:53 +0000

Goob…I had the same problem with CVS as Mark…I live in Western Kentucky…called the line gave me a date and connected me to the store…I was transfered around and finally a Pharmaciest came on the line…told they had received any thing on this in any way…she doubted very seriously CVS would ever give out “free shots” to anyone unless an natural disaster had accured in the area and suggested I call the hospitals to tell them my story of woo.

Finally, I am unemployed I was laid off 4 months ago…I just wrote a whole paragraph trying to let you all understand how lower then low I feel right now, but i erased it…I can’t completely support myself on a 7.50 or 8.00 job and I can’t even get an interview anywhere else…and I try every day…all I can do is cry right now and tell you all I am sorry I don’t want to be in this place, believe I don’t. I will keep trying and please remember that everyone has some kind of private battle they are going through and yes sometimes your opinion hurts.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:57:19 +0000

Amen

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:45:56 +0000

Share this with as many people as you can, you never know who you might be able to help out.

By: HRu

HRu — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:48:45 +0000

Thanks, Goob, for your post; I forwarded it to an unemployed family member and hope he’s got the sense to take advantage of this freebie.

As for the rest of you and your agenda-oriented comments, I did not bargain for such reading – thank you for hurting my eyes. I would like my refund now, or alternatively, a vaccine to erase all that I have just read.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:34:24 +0000

Goob, I’d agree with you when you say that CVS & Walgreens is paying for this if I actually read from either one, saying that “we are paying for this out of our profits”.

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:41:17 +0000

We’re getting close to the record of comments!

I’ve gotten the flu shot every year and have never had the flu. We’ll keep on getting them in my family…

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:02:44 +0000

Thank you “my two cents”. I was actually just looking it up myself. I was going to post that I got the shot, which contains the killed virus, mixed up with the nasel spray, which does contain the live virus.

By: nikki

nikki — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:51:33 +0000

and hott….lol

By: nikki

nikki — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:51:16 +0000

goob your awsome.

By: Just my 2 cents

Just my 2 cents — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:47:02 +0000

I found this on the CDC’s website, for what it’s worth:

The “flu shot” — an inactivated vaccine (containing killed virus) that is given with a needle, usually in the arm. The flu shot is approved for use in people older than 6 months, including healthy people and people with chronic medical conditions.

The nasal-spray flu vaccine — a vaccine made with live, weakened flu viruses that do not cause the flu (sometimes called LAIV for “live attenuated influenza vaccine” or FluMist®). LAIV (FluMist®) is approved for use in healthy* people 2-49 years of age who are not pregnant.

It would appear the shot does not have the live virus, but the nasal spray has a weakened form of the live virus.

As for mercury in vaccines, this is from the NNII: Thimerosal is a compound that is 49.6% mercury by weight. Although it is not used in all vaccines (for example, it is not used in measles-mumps-rubella or chickenpox vaccines), it has been part of the manufacture of many vaccines since the 1930s.

I think it is great that HIF posted the info about the flu shot for people who want to get it, but perhaps can’t afford it. I also think it is a slippery slope we encounter when people start posting their personal opinions regarding medical issues on a website for freebies. But like I said, this is just my two cents, which probably isn’t worth much!!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:26:02 +0000

To #29 Pamela, actually IT IS a live virus in the shot. This is per the doctors office. Also there is mecury and other chemicals in the shot.
Any nurses or doctors want to comment on this for me?

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:17:49 +0000

I have never gotten the flu shot and I am very healthy. Nor will I ever get it, but thanks anyways.

By: Goob

Goob — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:42:36 +0000

@Chris, then simply don’t shop at CVS or Walgreens. Problem solved, now you’re not paying for anything. I, meanwhile, will happily keep shopping with them while knowing that they’re helping out some people in need.

@Mark, I’d call CVS’ corporate toll-free number and pass your story along to them. I’m sure they’d be interested to hear that a local CVS is bucking their own policy that they issued in a press release!

@Everybody Else, thank you.

When I saw the number of comments + the way things were going at the start, I fully expected to have a derailed thread and a few temporary bannings to pass out. Yet 35 comments into and we’ve got a levelheaded discussion going on.

Y’all rock.

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By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:38:57 +0000

Guys, there is NO swine flu vaccine yet. They are still testing them. They really don’t expect it to be available until probably December. The only flu shot that is currently available is the “regular” flu shot. Please keep this in mind because I am sure that doctors offices are being bombarded by enough questions about the swine flu vaccine.