Fresno County Public Health Department partnering with hospitals to provide free flu clinics

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Colder days and colder nights are ahead.

"We cognize it is going to assistance dispersed those indoor viruses adjacent much arsenic radical thin to enactment indoors much and more," said Dr. Rais Vohra, the Interim Health Officer of the Fresno County Public Health Department.

Fresno County Public Health leaders accidental present is the clip to support yourself against respiratory diseases similar RSV, COVID-19 and particularly the flu. Dr. Vohra tells Action News they're keeping a adjacent oculus connected cases successful the county.

"COVID was rather progressive successful the summer," said Dr. Vohra. "I would accidental that COVID and the flu are neither precocious nor debased close now, but they are benignant of making their mode successful the population."

Dr. Vohra says it's astir the Thanksgiving vacation erstwhile cases commencement to rise.

"We truly request to instrumentality vantage and marque definite that everyone gets their flu shots and their COVID shots this time," helium said.

Health leaders accidental the flu changeable takes astir 2 weeks to afloat instrumentality effect and tin past respective months to a year.

To get up of seasonal illness, the Fresno County Public Health Department is presently partnering with UCSF and Saint Agnes Medical Center to supply escaped vaccine clinics passim the county.

"All of these organizations are truly committed to making definite that folks that benignant of unrecorded distant from the metropolis don't get near behind," said Dr. Vohra. "We cognize that we person a batch successful the agrarian populations."

Dr. Vohra says they're ever trying to enactment up of a imaginable triple-demic menace of the flu, COVID-19 and RSV.

He recommends getting the flu changeable arsenic 1 obstruction to support yourself from getting earnestly sick.

"It won't extremity up starring to pneumonia, hospitalization oregon death," said Dr. Vohra.

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