City urges New Yorkers to get the flu vaccine
As the fall weather is closing in, so is the flu season, prompting the city’s Health Department to urge New Yorkers aged six months and older to get a seasonal flu vaccine.
Getting vaccinated this year is especially important, since last year’s flu season was the longest in 10 years, lasting from mid-November 2018 through to mid-April 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“As New Yorkers, we look out for each other,” said Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot. “And there is no better way to look out for your fellow New Yorker — especially those most vulnerable to the flu such as infants, people with compromised immune systems and the elderly — than getting vaccinated against influenza.”