CDC Advises Getting Your Flu Shot Now
Flu season is just around the corner, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that you get your flu shot as soon as you can.
The CDC isn’t making any predictions about this year’s flu season in particular. But as always, we can expect cases of the flu to crop up about the same time the leaves start coming down, which means now is the time to prepare.
“We want people to get vaccinated a couple of weeks before activity really starts to pick up which normally is in October or November,” said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.
Skinner adds that the agency monitors influenza year-round in order to develop each year’s vaccine. “This year we changed one of the A strains and the B strain based on activity that we have noticed happening in other parts of the world.”
But Skinner says there’s no way to predict the potential severity of the flu season, so the CDC recommends flu vaccinations for everyone over the age of six months.
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