The peak of the influenza season is now and there’s still time to get a flu shot.

Greene County Public Health Director Becky Wolf explains part of the reason why there’s been a surge of not only flu cases, but also RSV in young children and covid.

“Our masking did what it needed to do. We have not seen a bad flu year for years and years. In fact, we’re probably overdue or probably getting it now.”  

She points out another reason there’s been an increase is because more people are spending time indoors and in closer contact with each other. Wolf continues to lobby for those individuals who have not yet gotten a flu shot to do so.

“You need to get your flu shot every year because of the fact that the vaccine changes according to what the predictions of the strains that will hit and luckily this year we’ve got a good match, or a better than some other years. We just need to try and do a better job with the vaccination in influenza.” 

Wolf says flu vaccines are readily available from any pharmacy, your primary care physician, and at public health. Wolf adds it takes about two weeks for the flu vaccine to take full effect.