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2026-2027 Flu Pre-Booking Beginning!
It’s that time of year when physicians and their staff consider how many doses of flu vaccine to reserve for their patients for the upcoming season. There are deadlines, for taking advantage of these pre-booking perks which is March 31st or Mid April depending on the manufacturer.
Influenza immunization being seasonal requires a little flu vaccine pre-planning AKA flu vaccine pre-booking. The flu vaccine manufacturers have excellent tools and resources to support healthcare providers influenza prevention for their patients. Today, January 23rd, Sanofi begins taking flu reservations for the 2026-2027 Influenza season through their website VaccineShop.com. If practices have previously ordered directly from Sanofi their flu vaccine order history is maintained and all that is needed is a confirmation on the number of doses needed. There are advantages to the provider to reserve or pre-book their flu vaccine, specifically additional discounts and shipping guarantees. Sanofi manufacturers two premium influenza vaccines Fluzone High Dose and Flublok. Flublok is made with recombinant DNA technology rather than eggs and can be given to patients 9 years of age and older. In addition to Fluzone High dose and Flublok, Sanofi has the standard influenza vaccine Fluzone. CSL Seqirus is another important flu vaccine manufacturer bringing to patient protection their premium flu vaccine Fluad and their cell based standard flu vaccine Flucelvax. Seqirus too is now taking flu vaccine pre-books on their direct purchase site Flu360.com. GSK is ready to take reservations for their standard influenza vaccines Flulaval and Fluarix at GSKDirect.com. For patients that are needle averse AstraZeneca has their needle free option Flumist available to pre-book through FFF or other authorized distributors.
These flu vaccine options bring unique benefits to flu prevention and vary by age indication, therefore a review of the prescribing information for each influenza vaccine product should help immunization providers select what’s best for their patient population and practice needs. The 2026-2027 updated prescribing information for each vaccine will be available following the decision on selected strains for the 2026-2027 formulation. Medical practices needing vaccine discounts for any of these flu brands my access flu vaccine contract discounts through a free membership in Physicians Buying Group ( PBG ) PracticeWell.