CMA last week participated in a two-day National Flu Summit in Atlanta. The annual summit, sponsored by AMA and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), brings together various experts and stakeholders to discuss flu vaccine supply and distribution.

During this year’s summit, CMA recommended a number of procedural changes to improve vaccine distribution next year. Among those recommendations: extend the period during which only high-risk patients can be vaccinated; allow earlier prebooking of vaccine orders; and release the CDC’s stockpile of vaccine much earlier in the season, with priority given to physicians.

Click here for the speakers’ presentations from this year's National Flu Summit.

Contact: Robin Flagg, 415/882-5110 or rflagg@cmanet.org.