Especially with a new president in town and with the team he’s been putting together to handle national health, there’s been a lot of questions flying around regarding vaccines. However, there has been no such debate within the Guilford County Division of Public Health, which, on Monday, Feb. 10, put out a strongly worded public statement urging all county residents over the age of 6 months to get vaccinated for influenza.
It reads, “The Guilford County Division of Public Health is urging all community members, both adults and children, to receive the flu vaccine…. The flu vaccine is the best way for Guilford County residents to protect themselves and their loved ones from the flu virus, which spreads easily and can lead to serious illness, hospitalization and even death. Vaccinations are especially important for those at higher risk of severe viral respiratory disease, including people 65 years and older, children younger than 5, pregnant women, those with a weakened immune system and those with certain medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.”
Respiratory virus surveillance data is published weekly by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, and influenza surveillance data is published weekly by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to those sources, North Carolina is currently seeing an increase in flu and other respiratory illnesses.
“The Guilford County Division of Public Health has seen consistent numbers of people receiving the flu vaccine over the last several years. Guilford County Public Health’s vaccine numbers generally increase around this time of year, when respiratory illness numbers trend upward,” Elizabeth OBrien, the communications manager for the county’s health division, told the Rhino Times this week.
If you aren’t an anti-vaxxer and do choose to follow the county’s advice, well, they make it very easy for you to do so.
The Division of Public Health is currently offering appointments for the latest 2024-2025 season flu vaccine – in addition to the most recent COVID-19 vaccine – for anyone age 6 months or older.
Appointments are available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the locations in the county’s two largest cities.
- 1100 E. Wendover Ave. in Greensboro
- 501 E. Green Dr. in High Point
If you want to schedule an appointment, you’re asked to call 336-641-3245. (When calling to schedule an appointment, please be sure that your health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare or Medicare Supplement information is readily available.)
The flu and COVID-19 vaccines are also available at pharmacies, local health clinics and doctor’s offices.
Since there is a lot of respiratory illness going around right now, the Guilford County Division of Public Health is encouraging the following prevention tips for diseases of that type:
- Staying up to date with immunizations
- Maintaining good hygiene and frequent handwashing
- Getting enough rest to avoid becoming sick
- Taking steps for cleaner air
- Considering a mask or physically distancing in crowds
- Testing ahead of gatherings
- Staying away from others who are sick
Also, local health officials advise you to try to stay alert as to when you might have a respiratory virus, and, when you do, stay home, take steps to prevent spread and seek health care quickly for testing and treatment.
In addition, to protect yourself and others the department advises wearing masks and practicing physical distancing – and, if you think you might have COVID-19, get tested for it.
County health officials note that early diagnosis and treatment may help lower your risk of severe illness.
Adjuvants in vaccines greatly suppress the immune system for a couple of weeks after administration. So be aware of this before deciding to take a vaccine. You need a good reason to take it and some time to recover.
Be sure to get your medical advice from your doctor and not some random commenter on the internet.
Note: Current studies do not support the hypothesis that multiple vaccines overwhelm, weaken, or “use up” the immune system. But ask your doctor.
Chrissy believing everything he’s told by his “experts”… as usual !
What a sheep. Baa…. baa…
Yeah. I believe Doctors and scientists know a great deal more about how to give sound health advice than random commenters on the internet with a very clear personal agenda. If you believe differently, then YOU are the sheep (hence your ability to speech like a sheep).
FYI, your statement puts you on the same level as Flat-Earthers. But you be you.
The internet has no agenda.
And I believe the Earth is a sphere.
And you “speech (sic) like a sheep ! LOL !
Do you not feel embarrassed by your evident, obvious stupidity?
Oh no! I get my medical advice from a doctor who went to med school and passed the bar exam. Crazy right!?
Austin must get his medical advice from the 1 out of 10 dentist that doesn’t recommend fluoride toothpaste.
LMAO
The new federal administration is “pro-choice” when it comes to vaccines, as am I. A person should be able to pick and choose what vaccines are appropriate for their medical and personal needs. It doesn’t mean they are “anti-vaxxers”. Putting negative labels on people has become tiresome and doesn’t benefit the discussion at all. (To stop Chris from asking, I’m pro-choice in all medical decisions, including pregnancy and end-of-life. I do me and you do you.)
The rate of those with the Flu has remained fairly consistent over the last month. There are over 10 million people in North Carolina with between 2,300 to 2,850 who have respiratory illness admitted to the hospital for treatment and less than half of those for the Flu (they don’t give numbers only percentages, for ER visits compared to all ER visits, which don’t provide the number of people who have the Flu). Either many people have had a vaccine or not many have serious flu symptoms which is good.
Chiding adults doesn’t work well to gain compliance because they’re not your children. A less accusatory tone may encourage more people to consider getting a Flu or COVID vaccine. You could ask your doctor about RSV and Pneumococcal vaccine at the same time which also protects your respiratory system.
The challenge is that those that forgo vaccines (especially for the recommended vaccines for children) allow for the continued propagation of some very serious illnesses that until the anti-vax movement (not founded in scientific studies) had been largely fully suppressed.
If people would ignore unqualified talking heads and actually get medical advice from their doctors and qualified public health officials (ie NOT JFK jr.), the world would be a better place.
But you be you.
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My body, my choice.
So, you are pro-choice? Nice. So am I.
Funny how conservatives loooooove freedom until that freedom is something they personally disagree with and then government control makes perfect sense. Typical hypocritical mindset of the conservative. You know,….
-like freedom to live openly as a LGBTQ person
-like freedom to speak openly against the President from the media
-like freedom to end an unintentional pregnancy
-like freedom for a doctor to perform lifesaving procedures for patient whose pregnancy has taken a terrible trun and puts the mother’s health at risk..
-like freedom to moderate content on a privately owned platform
etc..
etc..
etc..
etc..
WRONG! I am in favor of all those things except when “freedom to end an unintentional pregnancy” amounts to infanticide.
Are you in favor of killing unborn babies at 8 months, like so many of your fellow Leftists?
– And your strategy of putting words into other people’s mouths is growing old. You deliberately ascribe to them positions the have never enunciated, then you attack that false position. It’s a fallacy that’s called making a straw man argument. Then again, you are just a fallacy. Pathetic.
If the baby is not viable or a danger to the mother’s life. Yup, I am fully supportive of the mother and doctor making the appropriate decision.
I am pleased you are pro-choice and support women’s rights. Good on you.
*Qualified public health officials not with the NIH or CDC.
Why not also include all the pharmacies in town which more than likely have all the vaccines. Going to the health dept is a waste of time and money.
I can barely remember the one occasion I was vaccinated. I think I was three.
And I’m as healthy as a horse, and always have been (thank you Jesus).
PS I caught Covid. The American Red Cross confirmed my donated blood was reactive for Covid antibodies. Big deal – just a mild flu.
Or, the flu, but with better publicity.
Yep ! I suspect it was actually a global experiment in social conditioning. The Globalists of the WEF will be well pleased, since the vast majority complied, obeyed, and submitted.
Very few refused to make themselves guinea pigs.
Good for you. Most people survived Covid even when it was at its worst. However, millions didn’t. Are you belittling their deaths?
. . . & covid, rsv, hpv, shingles, mono, hepatitis, tetanus, antabuse . . .
. . . & wear your ‘i am sick’ sign or tattoo.
4 Covid shots + annual flu shots did not prevent us from getting either. I have read that Covid shots can produce illness or death. It was (is) my opinion that both prey on the elderly and infirm.