The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is recommending eligible people six months and older get the annual influenza vaccine. It notes that only 18% of residents have been vaccinated so far this year, or about one in six people.
“It is important because we have a lot of high-risk individuals who either can’t get the flu shot or who are just at risk for getting a severe form of the flu and potentially can die from it, and so we want to not only protect ourselves, but protect other people.”
Kent County’s Public Health Supervisor for Communicable Diseases Cathy Armstrong says the emergence of a new flu variant known as subclade K makes it even more important to get vaccinated…