Run, don't walk, to get your flu shot, infectious disease expert says
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Dr. Brian Conway has advice for anyone thinking about getting a flu shot this fall.
"Run! Don't walk to get your flu shot," he said, speaking from his office at the Vancouver Infectious Disease Centre.
"I think there is great consensus behind the statements that there will be a significant influenza season going forward."
The bad flu season experts see looming on the horizon is due, in part, to last fall and winter when influenza was effectively eliminated in British Columbia and across Canada, thanks to COVID-19 health orders that prevented gatherings and travel, and promoted physical distancing, mask-wearing and hand-washing.
But, with social life now returning to normal, zero flu last season will have consequences this season, in that the population is likely now more susceptible to the virus.
"People don't have any built-up immunity that they might have [developed] from a flu season last year, or from getting their [flu] shots last year, or both," said Conway.
"So we'll go from the best year on record for influenza to something other than that."
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