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WASHINGTON – Options and opportunity are the keys to navigating the 2014-2015 flu season, according to a panel of experts at a press conference sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

“The easier we make it for people to get vaccinated, the more likely they are to get vaccinated,” said CDC Director Thomas Frieden, who received his flu shot at the press conference.

In interviews at the conference, Dr. Frieden, Dr. Paul A. Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Dr. Laura E. Riley of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; and Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., discussed making the most of opportunities to vaccinate patients, offering reassurance about vaccine safety (especially for pregnant women), setting an example in your practice by getting vaccinated yourself, and ensuring that everyone who works in your office receives a flu vaccine as well.

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