""When all 13 health officers come together, they're really unified in this important message," Santa Clara Co. Deputy Health Officer Dr. Monika Roy said. "Vaccines are still the best way to protect yourself from getting really sick or hospitalized from COVID, flu and other respiratory viruses.""
""Unlike flu we're seeing two peaks. One in summer and one in the winter season," Roy said. "We don't know what COVID exactly is gonna look like this winter, but we are expecting to see a bump in winter and then every year, we've seen a big rise both in flu and RSV.""
All 13 Bay Area public health directors issued a unified recommendation to vaccinate against flu, COVID-19, and RSV. Vaccination remains the primary means to prevent severe illness and hospitalization from respiratory viruses. The CDC removed its universal COVID-19 vaccine recommendation, but Bay Area officials continue to advise updated COVID and influenza vaccines for everyone six months and older, and RSV vaccination for high-risk groups including infants, older adults, and pregnant people. Recent patterns show two influenza peaks, in summer and winter, and an expected winter bump in COVID and RSV activity. Vaccines are currently available across the Bay Area.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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