UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center

Good Afternoon Bruins! Our namesake, Arthur Ashe, is in the news thanks to WBUR 90.9 FM. Enjoy this piece on the legendary athlete and famed UCLA Alumni.

Arthur Ashe represented 'the possibilities of life.' A new film explores the tennis great's legacy Johnnie Ashe joins us to reflect on his late brother's activism on and off the tennis court.

Good Morning, Bruins! Your COVID-19 boosters are available at UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center. Schedule a vaccination appointment using your Patient Portal today.

CDC is strengthening its recommendation on COVID-19 vaccine booster doses. Everyone ages 18 and older should get a booster shot either when they are 6 months after their initial Pfizer or Moderna series or 2 months after initial J&J vaccine. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3mrK4Z5.

UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center has COVID-19 boosters for any UCLA students seeking an immunity "boost" before the holiday travel season. Call us, or log in to The Ashe Center Patient Portal to schedule your appointment today.

Yes. Everyone is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks after their second dose in a two-dose primary series, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, or two weeks after a single-dose J&J/Janssen vaccine.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/booster-vax.

Good Afternoon, Bruins. Just a little reminder that tomorrow is a university holiday and UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center will be closed, but select COVID-19 services will be available. For more information, visit our website: 🐻https://www.studenthealth.ucla.edu/ 📅

Good Morning Bruins! Immunization Requirements are on students' minds this week. Need assistance becoming immune compliant? We've got everything you'll need on our Immunization Requirements website: 💉 https://ucla.in/3EKsg1A 🐻

Good Morning, Bruins! Did you know UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center offers PEP and PrEP? Learn more: 🩺💊: https://ucla.in/3BBi1KU

PEP, or post-exposure prophylaxis, is an emergency short course of HIV medicines taken within 72 hours (3 days) after a possible exposure to HIV to prevent the virus from taking hold in your body.

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Good Morning, Bruins! Flu vaccination pop-up clinics by UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center continue on campus into November (Next event is scheduled for Friday, Nov 5). For a full list of dates, visit The Ashe Center Student Health Events Calendar, or the UCLA Community Calendar created by UCLA Student Affairs. 📅 https://ucla.in/3w3pG3o

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Here's Why Your Arm Hurts After a Flu Shot—And What You Can Do About It It's not *only* because someone just jabbed it with a needle.

Good Morning Bruins! Just a little update that today's scheduled pop-up flu vaccination clinic at the Bruin Bear has been moved indoors because of the rain. Come to UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center Fourth Floor Large Conference Room to get your flu shot (9am-4pm) -- no appointment necessary.

UCLA Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) invites you to their next open meeting.

As the officially recognized UCLA student committee charged with having oversight and input into the provision of health services as well as with fostering the overall health and wellbeing of UCLA students, SHAC has established formal relationships not only with the Ashe Center, but also with other administrative bodies associated with student health and wellness and organizations charged with the oversight of these programs.

For more information, you can email [email protected].

You can also bookmark their UCLA Community Calendar page to see all of their upcoming meetings: https://ucla.in/3ncK91H 🐻📅

Hi Bruins! You may have heard the term "breakthrough infections" as it relates to COVID-19. What does it mean? Learn more by watching the brief video from Cleveland Clinic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmjDf9jUWEM

The bottom line: COVID-19 vaccines protect people against severe illness, including disease caused by Delta and other variants circulating in the U.S.

More info, including a CDC link, is available on our website.

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What Are COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections? For more information on breakthrough COVID-19 cases, please visit https://cle.clinic/2Y4fgDRNo vaccine is 100% effective. In fact, some breakthrough COVID-19...

Good Afternoon Bruins! Have you seen us out by Bruin Bear today? We've got flu shots for all registered students. Stop by and see us, no appointment necessary.

Important: The University of California issued a systemwide executive order on Oct. 8, 2021, requiring all covered students, faculty, other academic appointees and staff to, by Nov. 19, 2021, get vaccinated against influenza or opt out using a form supplied by their location after receiving information about flu vaccine.

The COVID-19 vaccine is available at UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center. Additionally, if you are interested in a COVID-19 booster and believe you qualify under the new CDC guidelines, contact your primary care provider using The Ashe Center Patient Portal, or call our main line to speaker to our scheduling staff.