Here's When You Should Get Your Flu Vaccine, According to One Doctor

Miriam Alexander with LifeBridge Health said October might be the best month to get a flu vaccine because strains often linger for six months, reports Deseret News . "The flu shot seems to only work for about six months and we always have quite a lot of flu in our communities in March," she explained. "We want to make sure people are protected against the flu in March." Alexander added that there should be increased urgency from Americans to say safe from the flu this year due to the coronavirus. "We don't want to confuse the picture when we as a medical community are trying to figure out what's going on with people," she said. "If they know they've had the flu shot, then we will think more COVID than we will flu." Meanwhile, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield warned that the common cold, the flu, and the coronavirus could combine into a very problematic fall in the United States. Vanderbilt University's William Schaffner further cautioned that Labor Day weekend could act as an accelerant for COVID-19, "because it looks as though a very substantial portion of our population wants to be out and about very freely in groups, without masks, not paying attention to social distancing."