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Flu Shots and the Potential Twindemic

Aug. 20, 2020


Get your flu shots. That’s the takeaway from numerous health experts who considered the potential overlap of the upcoming flu season with the COVID-19 pandemic for an International Business Times article.

Richard Watkins, M.D., an infectious disease physician in Akron, Ohio, and a professor of internal medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, aimed his remarks at potential patients, noting, “the last thing they need is to get COVID-19 and the flu.”

Read the full article in the International Business Times.

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