Flu vaccinations key this fall, winter—S. Korean health execs

A second round of novel coronavirus infections could coincide with the return of seasonal flu in fall, South Korean health authorities said. AsiaNewsNetwork

Yoon Tae-ho, the Health Ministry’s public health policy director, said in a press briefing earlier the same day that the ministry was considering making the influenza vaccination compulsory for a wider range of the population to get more people immunized against flu.

“The government is working with drugmakers to produce sufficient doses of influenza vaccine to prepare for an uptick in the number of people getting vaccinated.” “Second wave of the Spanish Flu in fall of 1918 killed five times more people than the first,” she said. “If history is any guide, a more expansive vaccination program has to be put in place nationwide to brace for fall and winter.”

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