UC Davis Infectious Disease Expert Urges Vaccinations To Prevent Winter Surge Amid Concurrent Flu Season

WOODLAND (CBS13) — Woodland held its archetypal drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination session for children ages 5-11.

Parents similar Bliecek Villegas lined up with kids successful tow.

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“It is precise important. We privation to support them safe,” she said.

Health experts are calling the caller clinics critical.

We talked with Dr. Dean Blumberg implicit Zoom. He’s a pediatric infectious illness adept with UC Davis Health who’s reminding radical it’s besides presently flu season.

“We know, arsenic an idiosyncratic concern, it’s thing to beryllium disquieted astir due to the fact that we cognize radical who person COVID and influenza are much apt to extremity up successful the ICU and intubated connected a ventilator,” helium said.

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Blumberg said existent models amusement a leap successful wintertime COVID-19 cases. He said it’s much than what helium saw this summertime erstwhile restrictions loosened backmost up.

Saturday’s session was 1 of galore aiming to curb the surge.

“It’s perfectly a affirmative thing. Most importantly, it’s a affirmative happening for those individuals are going to beryllium protected against superior disease,” Blumberg said.

Clinics person present opened up to much kids portion adults are getting their booster shots. It didn’t wounded to person 1,100 stuffed bears connected manus to assistance easiness the anxiousness of the small ones.

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“It’s bully to spot this galore radical coming retired to either get their kids getting their archetypal changeable oregon them getting their boosters,” 1 genitor astatine the Woodland session said.

Marlee Ginter