Protect Yourself from Acute Respiratory Infections: Tips for a Healthy Holiday Season

2023-12-13 07:10:00

About ten days before the Christmas holidays, the Minister of Health warns that the epidemics are “ready to start once more”. In her Moreuil office, Catherine Coquerelle notes an increase of around 17% in acute respiratory infections over one week.

How to protect yourself from the viruses that are circulating at the moment, between the flu and covid? Are the Picards taking the step? As the Christmas holidays approach, Catherine Coquerelle, secretary of the order of doctors in the Somme and general practitioner in Moreuil, gives her advice for having a peaceful end to the year.

In her office, Catherine Coquerelle notes a 17% increase in acute respiratory infections in one week. The most affected are “young people who go out and go to work“, describes the general practitioner who calls for wearing a mask and getting vaccinated once morest flu and Covid.

However, according to figures revealed at the beginning of the month by Health Insurance, the flu vaccination rate is low: barely a third of the policyholders concerned took the step in the Somme, compared to more than half a year ago. Catherine Coquerelle notes the “lassitude“patients and always a lot of”ignorance” regarding how the vaccine works.

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