DH and I got our flu shots at Meijer yesterday. I asked the pharmacist which Covid shot/s they're offering, and he said only Moderna. We will get those after Thanksgiving - closer to our January cruise.
The main strains of influenza virus circulating now are similar to those that caused the severe outbreaks last season.
www.nbcnews.com
After a rough, record-setting flu season, doctors and health officials are bracing for another wave of fever, misery and respiratory distress.
In the U.K., health officials are warning about an
early rise in flu levels among children and young adults. In Japan, health officials recently declared a flu epidemic and closed schools after experiencing an
unusually high number of flu cases early in the season.
What does that mean for the US?
Typically, flu cases start to rise in November, along with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and enteroviruses, and
peak in February. But
job-cut chaos at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the government shutdown could make it hard to know how the virus is playing out this fall, experts worry...