Holidays Are Coming Up, Is It Going to Be as Fresh as Hell?

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Thanksgiving has always been kind of this catalist for major flue transmission. And having flue be worse than it was last year is defnitly not helping this whole situation, especially as we're trying to protect our hospitals and our health carin structure from being strained. It's so important that people get their flue shots and their cove in 19 scenes to prevent another hospital search that we saw last winter.

You’re six to ten times LESS likely to catch COVID-19 if you’re vaccinated, and thus less likely to infect others. Great! But what about breakthrough cases? Who’s at risk for them? How many folks haven’t gotten vaccinated? Should pregnant people get the ol’ jab, what might happen with transmission rates in 2022, yearly booster questions, the ethics of vaccine distribution, myocarditis, Long COVID, quarantine fatigue and essentially whether the holidays are a good idea.

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