Reasons for you and your family to get the flu vaccine as soon as possible include:
- Flu is unpredictable. It is impossible to know how severe this flu season will be or when it will start.
- Each flu season, flu causes millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends annual flu vaccination for everyone 6 months and older as the flu vaccine is our best defense against getting the flu.
- While flu vaccine can vary in effectiveness from person to person, vaccination can reduce flu illnesses, doctor visits, missed work and school due to flu, as well as decreased flu-related hospitalizations.
- It takes about two weeks after vaccination for protection to develop, so get vaccinated now!
Please contact the clinic with any questions and concerns. You can also learn more at www.cdc.gov/influenza. We look forward to making this flu season a healthy one for you and your family!