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438-2021
To: Honorable Mayor Dan Gelber and Members of the City Commission
From: Alina T. Hudak, City Manager
Date: October 13, 2021
Subject: Free Flu Vaccines Available for All Miami Beach Youth Residents
The purpose of this Letter to Commission is to update you on the status of the City of Miami
Beach’s efforts to provide a free flu vaccine to Miami Beach youth residents. The city has
sustained its partnership with Borinquen Medical Centers, Miami-Dade County Public
Schools, and The Children’s Trust to provide free flu vaccines to youth from October 27-29,
2021 at the following locations during afterschool hours and a teacher planning day: Miami
Beach Senior High School, Miami Beach Fienberg Fisher K-8, and Miami Beach Nautilus
Middle School.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), getting a flu vaccine will
not protect against COVID-19, however, flu vaccination has many other important benefits. Flu
vaccines have been shown to reduce the risk of flu illness, hospitalization, and flu-related death
in children. Getting a flu vaccine this fall will be more important than ever, not only to reduce
risk from flu but also to help conserve potentially scarce health care resources.
To provide future protection from the flu, the City of Miami Beach has committed $15,000. The
flu vaccines will be administered at the locations listed below during afterschool hours and on
a teacher planning day for free ($0 copay):
DAY DATE TIME LOCATION Schools
Being
Serviced
Wednesday 10/27/21 4pm-7pm School Parking Lot
Miami Beach Nautilus Middle School
4301 Michigan Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33140
All Miami
Beach public
schools
Thursday 10/28/21 4pm-7pm School Parking Lot
Miami Beach Fienberg Fisher K8
1420 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
All Miami
Beach public
schools
Friday 10/29/21
(Teacher
Planning Day)
10am-3pm School Parking Lot
Miami Beach Senior High School
2231 Prairie Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
All Miami
Beach youth
residents
MIAMI BEACH
O FFICE O F THE CITY MANAGER
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All participating youth will be required to submit a completed parental consent form by the
established deadline to their Miami Beach public school nurse. Consent forms may be found
on the City’s website at www.miamibeachfl.gov/flu.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or Dr. Leslie Rosenfeld, Chief Learning
and Development Officer.
MT/LDR
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