Low flu vaccination rates in Wisconsin concerning to doctors

MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) – Within the wake of excessive numbers of hospitalizations and workplace visits for respiratory viruses seen all through the nation, notably in pediatric care facilities, Youngsters’s Wisconsin and the Medical School of Wisconsin are involved about decrease charges of flu vaccination as we method the vacations.

Because it stands now, solely 30% of Wisconsinites have obtained their flu vaccinations. As compared, final yr’s quantity at this level was 33%, down from 39% in 2020.

Flu instances are at the moment minimal, however they’re rising. Further issues stem from elevated instances of RSV and COVID-19.

“All physicians all through the nation are nervous going into flu season proper now,” says Dave Margolis, M.D., pediatric most cancers physician from Youngsters’s Wisconsin.

Karen MacKinnon, BPharm, RPh, from the Medical School of Wisconsin Faculty of Pharmacy, says, “One of the best present you can provide your family members is to guard them whereas serving to your self get vaccinated.”

The CDC studies that seasonal influenza exercise is excessive and continues to extend throughout the county. In 2022, there have been 14 pediatric deaths attributable to the flu, together with two this flu season.

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