Attend our drive-thru to avoid getting the flu.

ALL Lumen employees—regardless of insurance plan—are encouraged to attend! Spouses, domestic partners, spouses, and adult dependents (children, ages 18-26) enrolled in a Lumen medical plan may participate.  

The event is free.

Yes! You will not leave your vehicle; you will only need to roll down your window. All we ask is that you try to wear a loose-fitting shirt so we can better access your arm. 

You do not need to register for the event. To expedite your experience, we do recommend you fill out your paperwork and bring it with you to the event. You may also call the Cor Medical clinic at (318) 582-7272 with any questions you may have. 

While it depends on the number of attendees, you shouldn’t spend more than 20 minutes at the event.

As we have seen with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19, people can unknowingly have the flu and gravely affect vulnerable elderly, children and those who have impaired immune systems, such as cancer patients and people with HIV or pulmonary disease. The more you suppress influenza through vaccination, the less opportunity the virus has to mutate and infect more people. You’ll also have lower viral loads and will shed the virus – and be infectious – for shorter periods of time. 

No, flu vaccines cannot cause flu illness. Flu vaccines given with a needle (i.e., flu shots) are made with either inactivated (killed) viruses, or with only a single protein from the flu virus. The nasal spray vaccine contains live viruses that are weakened so that they will not cause illness. 

While there are a few explanations, the most common one is: flu vaccines, from year to year, vary in how well they work and some people who get vaccinated still get sick with flu. When that happens, though, vaccination has been shown in several studies to reduce the severity of illness in those people who get vaccinated but still get sick.