Why getting your flu shot this year is crucial - KSL.com

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SALT LAKE CITY — October is the clip to hole for the holidays and upcoming flu play with a flu shot.

Dr. Tamara Sheffield, elder aesculapian manager for preventive medicine astatine Intermountain Healthcare said looking astatine the caller flu play successful Australia tin springiness america an thought of what to expect here.

"What we've seen successful the Southern Hemisphere is an aboriginal commencement to the influenza play and a overmuch much terrible play than we person had successful galore years," Sheffield said.

Those six months and older are eligible for the flu vaccine. Sheffield said that this year, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that those 65 and older get the Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent, Flublok Quadrivalent, oregon Fluad Quadrivalent vaccine.

"Their immune strategy ages conscionable similar the remainder of their body, truthful it doesn't respond arsenic good to the stimulation of a vaccine. And we privation to marque definite that the vaccine makes capable of an immune effect and that's wherefore we request that higher dose," Sheffield said.

She said getting your flu changeable is much important this twelvemonth than ever before. "Our hospitals could get overwhelmed again if we spot radical getting flu and COVID, we request radical to get protected against both," she said.

Like galore workplaces, we precocious had our flu changeable session astatine the KSL Broadcast House.

"Why wouldn't I get a flu shot? ... It's bully for maine and bully for everyone astir me," said Larry Curtis from KSL-TV.

"It's conscionable the happening that I bash each year, and I advocator everyone ever to get one," said KSL-TV lensman Mark Less.

Sheffield recommended that you get your flu changeable and COVID-19 booster the aforesaid day.