People with flu-like symptoms are streaming into Georgia emergency rooms, state public health officials said Tuesday. There’s still time for vaccinations to make a difference, they stressed.
The three main diseases in the current surge are flu, COVID-19 and a virus called RSV, for Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
“Everyone over age of six months should receive a COVID vaccine — seniors should receive two — as well as a flu vaccine,” State Epidemiologist Cherie Drenzek said. “It is not too late to receive a flu vaccine. Even though we may be peaking or close to peaking, we often have declines and then spring waves as well.”
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Drenzek made her remarks in a presentation to the Georgia Department of Public Health’s board meeting Tuesday…