U of M Med School Officials Promote Healthy Holidays

Officials at the University of Minnesota Medical School are encouraging people to take precautions to remain healthy over the holidays. Doctor Jill Foster says the flu and COVID-19 vaccines will provide protection this winter:

“As the weather gets colder and people move inside and the holidays and gatherings associated with them occur. It just becomes simple math. We will have people who are sick with a variety of respiratory illnesses mixed with people who don’t have sufficient immunity to them and people are going to get sick.”

Doctor Foster recommends wearing a mask at large gatherings. She says many Minnesota hospitals are crowded with R-S-V, COVID and flu patients.