Free flu shots set at four Fort Worth sites as county clinics take walk-ins

Free flu shots are scheduled at four Fort Worth sites over the next two weeks, and Tarrant County's public health clinics are taking walk-ins, as state surveillance shows flu testing beginning to tick up.

Texas Health Resources is holding free vaccination events open to anyone 9 or older, the Fort Worth Report reported Sunday. The Fort Worth stops are:

• Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 a.m. to noon, The Church at Philadelphia, 4716 Wichita St.
• Monday, Oct. 26, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Grace Temple Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 4200 E. Berry St.
• Thursday, Oct. 29, 6 to 8 p.m., Diamond Hill Community Center, 1700 NW 37th St.
• Tuesday, Nov. 3, 10 a.m. to noon, New Birth Christian Fellowship, 8466 Camp Bowie West Blvd.

The same series has stops in Euless on Tuesday, Arlington on Wednesday and again on Oct. 25, Keller and Hurst on Oct. 24, and Mansfield on Nov. 7.

County clinics

Tarrant County Public Health runs its immunization clinics on a walk-in basis only, accepting patients until 4 p.m. as long as vaccine is available, according to the county's website, which recommends arriving early and bringing vaccination records. Some locations offer Saturday hours. Vaccines are offered to adults and to children who are uninsured, underinsured or covered by Medicaid or CHIP.

The Fort Worth Report listed the flu shot price for uninsured patients at $35 for adults and $10 for children. Three county clinics are in Fort Worth:

• Main campus, 1101 S. Main St., open 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
• Granbury Road, 6551 Granbury Road, open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m.
• Miller Avenue, 3212 Miller Ave., open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m.

The county also has clinics in Arlington, Lake Worth and Watauga.

What the state is seeing

The Texas Department of State Health Services' latest weekly respiratory report, covering Sept. 27 through Oct. 3, found that the share of hospital lab specimens testing positive for flu had risen from the week before, while the share of patient visits for flu-like illness had dropped. Statewide activity remained at the "minimal" level, and no flu deaths among children were reported that week.

Two flu or flu-like illness outbreaks were reported, one in a school and one in a health care facility.

The same report counts 10,345 deaths of Texans across the 2025-26 season in which pneumonia or influenza was listed as an underlying or contributing cause on the death certificate. Nearly 8,000 of them were people 65 or older. The state notes the figures are provisional.

The Fort Worth Report, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noted that flu vaccines are reformulated each year to match the strains expected to be most common.

Sources

fortworthreport.org

tarrantcountytx.gov

State of Texas