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5. Flu vaccinations are down 8% compared to this time last season There have been about 26.5 million flu vaccines administ

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Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:33 AM

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Flu vaccinations are down 8% compared to this time last season

There have been about 26.5 million flu vaccines administered in retail pharmacies so far this season, nearly 2.3 million fewer than last year.

Total flu vaccines administered in retail pharmacies between August and October

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“I’m not surprised,” said Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, who directs the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health. Vaccine skepticism expressed by leaders of the US Department of Health and Human Services has “injected chaos into the whole vaccination system,” she said.

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