What to Know
- Flu season is here – and it seems that 2018 is worse than any in the last decade with a rise in the number of hospitalizations and deaths.
- Roxanne Vargas sat down with Dr. Clifford Medina, the chief of general medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach.
Flu season is here – and it seems that 2018 is worse than any in the last decade with a rise in the number of hospitalizations and recent deaths caused by the flu, including a 12-year-old from South Florida.
As part of NBC 6’s Flu Fight 2018, Roxanne Vargas sat down with Dr. Clifford Medina, the chief of general medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, to answer viewer questions and dispel several myths about getting a flu shot.
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For more information on the flu shot, contact your physician or visit the websites for the Florida Department of Health or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.