NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Cold and flu play is successful afloat force, prompting aesculapian officials to impulse the nationalist to get the flu vaccine.
News 2 sat down with Dr. Jeff Balser, CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dean of Vanderbilt University Medical School, who said that adjacent with flu, RSV and COVID each circulating earlier and harder this season, determination is bully quality – this year’s flu vaccine has been a success.
“You cognize however we are ever guessing arsenic to however it’s going to lucifer what microorganism really comes astatine us? We person a bully lucifer this year,” Dr. Balser said.
That’s wherefore it’s much important than ever to instrumentality vantage and get the flu shot. For weeks, Tennessee has stayed successful the apical purple tier connected the CDC’s flu map, and that has hospitals similar Vanderbilt operating astatine afloat capableness for months.
“It is concerning. On the different hand, what I anticipation is that that purple leaves america and we are getting ours early,” said Dr. Balser. “It’s a challenging clip to beryllium successful healthcare, and I deliberation our folks are heroes and we request to conscionable support telling them that.”
Although we are leaps and bounds successful a amended presumption than past year, COVID-19 is inactive retired there, too. Dr. Balser highly recommends getting your COVID booster, which helium calls a caller and improved shot.
“This 1 is antithetic and it’s amended matched to what we cognize is circulating,” Dr. Balser said. “So again, it makes tremendous sense to spell up and get the booster. It isn’t that it’s going to support you from catching COVID, it’s going to support you from getting dangerously sick with COVID.”
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