If you want to take the extra step to protect yourself from the flu, it is time to roll up your sleeve. Last year, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported more than 6,900 people were hospitalized with influenza during the previous flu season, including 4,200-plus individuals 65 years and older. Earlier this week, Door County Medical Center announced its vaccine clinic schedule for its drive-thru clinic, children’s center in Sturgeon Bay, and its clinic in Sister Bay. The clinics are currently scheduled for September and October.

Door County Public Health is ironing out the details of their own flu vaccine clinics, though they will be traveling to schools to vaccinate kids who have the approval of their parents. Public Health Nurse Holly Neri says vaccinating against the flu is important to protect yourself and others.

Neri says that while the flu vaccine is ready, more conversations are needed about the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine. She says more answers will be available after the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meets on September 18th. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the FDA has approved the COVID-19 vaccines for adults 65 and older and younger people with medical conditions that put them at high risk for severe illness after recommendations for other groups were dropped earlier this year.