Flu season is upon us, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday (December 14th) that it’s off to a slow start. Alicia Budd, an epidemiologist at the CDC says, “Flu activity is still fairly low, but as expected we have been seeing activity slowly increasing over the last few weeks. Unfortunately, we don’t have a crystal ball to know how badly we are going to fare during this flu season.”
She added that peak activity can occur anytime between December and February. As far as this year’s vaccine goes—it appears to be the most well-matched one to the strains going around this year—so it will most likely be more effective than last year’s vaccine.
