Flu Shot

It’s that time of year when all little children are surrounded by sniffling, coughing, snotty, hacking other children. When one runny nose turns into many red, stuffed noses. When teachers send notes home asking for more tissues. When employers who penalize their employees for sick time have sick people in their workplace spreading their germs like pollen.

Those children and workers come home and spread more germs to their families like icing all over a cake. You see them everywhere – in grocery stores, in churches, at the drugstore and in doctors’ waiting rooms.

What’s a person to do? If you’re
- Pregnant
- 6 months of age – 59 months of age
- 6 months – 18 years and on aspirin therapy
- living in a nursing home or living with others who have chronic illnesses
- 6 months or older and needed regular medical care or were hospitalized during the year for metabolic diseases like Diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease or have a weakened immune system
- are a healthcare worker or live with people at high risk for getting the flu
- are 50 years or older
- have a medical condition that causes you difficulty with breathing or swallowing
- have a lowered risk of getting the flu

GET A FLU SHOT!

This info is from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.