TU Health Center offering flu shots

Vaccination especially important during novel coronavirus pandemic

By Cody Boteler on September 15, 2020

Health Center entrance
Students, faculty and staff can all get flu shots at the Health Center at Ward & West on campus.

The Health Center at Ward & West is once again offering flu shots to all faculty, staff and students this year.

Dr. Matthias Goldstein, director of Student Health Services, says getting the flu vaccine is important every year but that it is especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“You have two possible offenders that can be making someone sick,” he says. “If you’ve got flu going around, and you have the novel coronavirus going around, and you can protect yourself against one of them, that’s the smartest approach.”

Appointments are not necessary to get a flu vaccine from the Health Center. Faculty and staff must bring their OneCard, and students must bring their OneCard and insurance card. Flu shots are available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Goldstein recommends anyone who can get the flu vaccine to do so.

“We’ve already got the vaccine for the flu in our building. We’re already giving it out,” he says.

Meanwhile, the Health Center continues to provide free COVID-19 testing for all faculty, students and staff. Appointments can be scheduled online for testing and are necessary.

COVID-19 testing at the Health Center is free, safe and noninvasive. Results are generally available within three to five business days. The latest testing data, updated weekly, is available on Towson University’s online dashboard.

Towson University also continues to monitor cases of COVID-19 among the campus community with the Tigers Care QuickScan Check-in. It requires all students, faculty and staff to check in every two weeks and monitor symptoms more frequently if they will be on campus.

This story is one of several related to President Kim Schatzel’s priorities for Towson University: TU Matters to Maryland.