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Vaccine Clinics are complete for the 2025-2026 Respiratory Illness Season.  Check back next fall for our next round of clinics.

The City of Revere Public Health Nurses operate seasonal flu and respiratory vaccine clinics during the fall months.  We offer both the Regular Dose Flu Vaccine (recommended for anyone 6 months or up) and the High-Dose Flu Vaccine (recommended for anyone 65 years or older).  

Learn more about the High-Dose Flu Vaccine here.

Are you or a loved one homebound?

We provide fall respiratory vaccines to homebound Revere residents in October and November each year.  If you are interested in getting a vaccine in your home for you or a family member please fill out this form and someone from the Public Health Department will get back to you within one business week.  In 2025 we are offered Flu, COVID-19, and Pneumococcal vaccines to Revere's homebound population.  We plan on offering those options in future years as well.  Call 781-485-8486 if you have any questions or to schedule your appointment.

Do you want a flu vaccine but don't have insurance?

Call the Public Health Department at 781-485-8486 to find out more information on how to obtain a free flu shot, even if you don't have insurance.

Do you want an easy way to get your flu shot without going to a local pharmacy?

Come to the Public Health Department (281 Broadway - Basement Level) every Wednesday from 3:00 - 5:00 pm until November.    

The City of Revere Public Health Nurses work in collaboration with Revere Public School nurses and the Revere Public School Parent Information Center (PIC) to review immunization records, schedule vaccine appointments for eligible children, and follow-up to complete vaccination series. 

• Vaccine clinics occur weekly, throughout the year, on an appointment-only basis.
• This clinic is open to anyone age 5 - 18 years old.
• Vaccines are issued through the federal Vaccines for Children program.
• Vaccines are free of charge.  No insurance is needed to be eligible for an appointment.

Please reach out to our Public Health Nurse to check on your vaccination status or to schedule an appointment at: 857-348-3848.

To reach the Revere Public Schools Parent Information Center, call 781-485-8453.

For general questions, please call the Public Health Department at 781-485-8486.

There are many other vaccines available at this time.  Some include:

• RSV Vaccine
• Pneumococcal Vaccine
• Shingles Vaccine
• Mpox Vaccine

The City of Revere Public Health Department does not offer any of the above vaccines at this time.  We recommend calling your primary care provider first to see if they suggest and offer any of the above vaccines.  Next, you can schedule vaccination appointments at a local pharmacy like:

• CVS
• Walgreens
• Rite Aid
• Seaside Pharmacy- 169 Shirley Ave, 781-284-6525

All answers are provided by Your Local Epidemiologist in collaboration with the Yale School of Public Health.

1. Are childhood vaccines safer than the diseases themselves?  Yes, the benefits continue to outweigh the risks for routine vaccine-preventable diseases.  For example, the risks of side effects from a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination are vanishingly small, especially compared to the devastating effects of measles.
2. Do children really need vaccinations, even if the disease is not still around?  Although many diseases, like measles, are no longer widespread in most U.S. communities, children still need vaccinations to maintain their immunity.  These diseases are still alive and well in other parts of the world.  Think of population immunity like a water dam built to prevent flooding.  Once it's built, we won't have flooding anymore.  But if the next generation comes along and says, "Hey, there's no flooding anymore- do we really need this dam?" and decides to get rid of it, the flooding would return quickly.  Your probability of encountering measles or polio is low because so many people around you are vaccinated.  When adults and kids are vaccinated against common diseases, it helps protect people whose immune system isn't fully functioning or who haven't been able to be vaccinated yet. 
3. Ho do we know vaccines are safe?  Are they ever taken off the market?  Rigorous, ongoing scrutiny of vaccine safety continues long after clinical trials conclude.  This is important because even among the largest trials involving tens of thousands of volunteers, scientists may not detect a very rare safety concern that may emerge only after millions of doses.  
4. Children receive so many more vaccines these days.  Why?  Is this ok?  This is true.  Children born before the 1990s received far fewer vaccines than today's kids.  However, over the years, we have gotten better at developing vaccines.  We target immune protection far more effectively.  Over the years, scientists got smarter at targeting viruses and bacteria - exposing children to fewer and fewer parts of the microbe to stimulate the immune system.  This is one way scientists and physicians know that the number of childhood vaccines cannot overwhelm immune systems.
5. Why do some children still get sick with a disease after being vaccinated?  Vaccines significantly reduce the likelihood of getting sick from infectious diseases and, in many cases, reduce transmission.  Most vaccines, however, do not completely eliminate the risk of becoming infected with the disease.