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This week's On Call with the Prairie Doc® focuses on 21st century challenges when it comes to infectious diseases.

San Diego County has reported 1,762 cases of the flu so far in October 2022. That accounts for 70 percent of the cases in the county since July.

The influenza shot, the flu shot and getting the new updated covid shot. if people do those two things, that really reduces the burden on the healthcare system and allows us to focus on taking care of kids with rsv. >> when it comes to covid, what can you tell us about the new subvariants youre tracking? >> were tracking them very closely. theyre incredibly immune invasive. the good news is that they are the -- the ones that are circulating and growing here in the united states are all derivativ...

Dr. Todd Ellerin of South Shore Health on the new bivalent booster and masking.

Children as young as five-years-old are now able to receive the updated COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine at local pharmacies and healthcare centers in both San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

Doctors are encouraging parents to take their children to get the updated, bivalent COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible as the U.S. braces for a surge in the next few weeks.

Data indicate durable immune response from bivalent booster after three months of follow-upmRNA-1273.214 also demonstrated potent response to Omicron BA.2.75CAMBRIDGE, MA / ACCESSWIRE / October 19, 2022

Positive recommendation follows the recent approval of Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron BA.1 (mRNA-1273.214), a bivalent booster vaccine targeting the Omicron BA.1 subvariant, in SeptemberCAMBRIDGE,

Officials in Tompkins county are alerting residents about an uptick in the number of COVID-19 cases in the community along with higher hospitalization numbers.

Albertans 12 years of age and older will soon have an additional COVID-19 vaccine choice.