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Resolve to keep your family healthy in 2024 with a flu shot.

Resolve to Keep Your Family Healthy with a Flu Shot

Resolve to keep your family healthy in 2024 with a flu shot.
January 3, 2024 - Now that the holiday festivities are over it might seem like everyone around you is sick. You’re not imagining things. Peak flu season is here, and, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), flu positives, outpatient respiratory illness, and flu hospitalizations are all up, too. Whether you’ve entered the new year […]
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Flu Season 2022 – 2023 In Review

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May 30, 2023 - 2022-2023 was a flu season like no other. We saw an earlier start to the flu season, higher than usual pediatric hospitalizations and mortality rates, and a ‘tripledemic’ with multiple respiratory viruses circulating. As we experienced challenges, this highlighted the continued importance of fighting the flu and getting an annual flu vaccine. Let’s look at […]
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Is Flu Season Over? Staying Protected Against Viruses in the Tridemic

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May 4, 2023 - Spring is here! This time of year, we may start to wonder whether flu season is truly over. While seasonal influenza activity has peaked and remains low nationally, it’s important to remain vigilant in protecting yourself and your family against other circulating viruses, such as COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Additionally, as news of […]
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As Spring Blooms, The Flu Threat Still Looms

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March 14, 2023 - After a long winter and one of the worst flu seasons we’ve seen in several years, many of us are ready for spring. College kids are heading to Spring Break. Families will be gathering for holidays like Easter and Passover. Warmer temperatures mean heading outside for kid and adult sporting events and other gatherings. But […]
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Tips to Keep Kids Healthy During the Tripledemic

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March 9, 2023 - According to a recent article from Yale Medicine, FLU and RSV are on the decline (but COVID-19 is once again on the rise) however, we are still in the midst of a ‘Tripledemic’ with respiratory viruses hitting hard. How do we keep our children healthy, even If it feels like everyone around us is sick? […]
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Celebrating Black Health Heroes Fighting Flu

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February 17, 2023 - Keith C. Ferdinand, MD This flu season, the National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention hosted the Million Hearts® Stakeholders Flu Vaccination Campaign. This campaign supported flu education, offering resources to educate communities on the importance of receiving an annual flu vaccine. Part of the resources included PSAs from their spokespeople. One of the […]
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It’s Not Too Late to Get Your Flu Vaccine

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January 6, 2023 - It’s Not too Late to Get Your Flu Vaccine While the ideal time to get your flu shot is by the end of October, it’s not too late to get yours now if you haven’t already! The CDC is already seeing elevated levels of influenza across the country and estimating 20 million illnesses, 210,000 hospitalizations, […]
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Flu Vaccine and the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease

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July 22, 2022 - We advocate for annual flu vaccination for the simplest of reasons; to keep you and your loved ones out of the hospital and away from serious health risks. When we think about those serious health risks it’s easy to dismiss that there are risks to your health long after you have recovered from a serious […]
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How Many People Had The Flu in 2020-2021?

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March 18, 2022 - The 2020-2021 flu season occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic. Because Covid-19 was spreading globally, many people were wearing masks, social distancing, washing hands, and staying home from work and school. These prevention measures for Covid-19 also worked to prevent flu! During the 2020-2021 flu season, the CDC reports that there were only 1,675 positive flu cases […]
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How Many Young Adults Die From The Flu?

February 23, 2022 - While people ages 65+ have the highest risk of getting the flu and dying from it, the flu does not discriminate. Sadly, people of all ages can die from the flu. During the 2019-2020 flu season, almost 500 people under 18 died from flu and over 2,000 people between the ages of 18-49 died from […]
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