{"id":145769,"date":"2025-10-23T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145769"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:40:24","slug":"allentown-health-bureau-expands-free-flu-shot-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145769","title":{"rendered":"Allentown Health Bureau Expands Free Flu Shot Clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flu-2025.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flu-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flu-2025.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flu-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flu-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flu-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/flu-2025-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>October 23, 2025 \u2013 The Allentown Health Bureau is offering flu vaccination clinics this month, in addition to the Bureau\u2019s weekly Friday clinics at Alliance Hall, 245 N. 6th Street, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Flu shots are available to individuals ages six months and older, with no insurance or residency requirements \u2014 the clinics are open to everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Flu Shot Clinic Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bucky Boyle Park (6th Ward): Thursday, October 24 | 10:00 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<br \/>\nMack Pool (South Side): Monday, October 27 | 3:00 PM \u2013 5:00 PM<br \/>\nCedar Beach Pool (West End): Thursday, October 30 | 10:00 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<br \/>\nAlliance Hall (245 N. 6th Street): Every Friday During Flu Season | 1:30 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone six months and older receive a flu vaccine every year. Vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent seasonal flu and reduce the risk of severe complications, hospitalizations, and missed school or workdays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting vaccinated each year helps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protect you and those around you from serious illness<br \/>\nReduce the spread of flu in the community<br \/>\nLessen strain on hospitals and healthcare systems during respiratory virus season<\/p>\n<p>For more information about flu clinics, please contact the Allentown Health Bureau at 610-437-7760.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nGenesis Ortega<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 23, 2025 \u2013 The Allentown Health Bureau is offering flu vaccination clinics this month, in addition to the Bureau\u2019s weekly Friday clinics at Alliance Hall, 245 N. 6th Street, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Allentown Health Bureau Expands Free Flu Shot Clinics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/allentown-flu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}