THE FLU SEASON: WE CAN PROTECT OURSELVES AND OUR COMMUNITY

Winter is coming. Medical professionals are bracing for the worst - case scenario of a potentially overloaded public health system by patients infected by both influenza and coronavirus. We can protect ourselves and the community by removing the influenza factor with a vaccine - University of Tasmania's associate professor of biomedicine Dr Guna Karupiah specialises in viral infections; Dr Chris Moy, Australian Medical Association's South Australian branch president; Dr Paul Angel from the Scarborough Majellan Medical Centre, Redcliffe (Qld); Dr Frank Occhino, senior doctor from SmartClinics, a growing network of general practitioners in South East Queensland.