With height of flu season yet to come, doctors say now is the time to get your vaccine

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Doctors at Prisma Health warn that the height of flu season is yet to come — and it’s not too late to get your vaccine.

Influenza typically starts as an upper respiratory infection — with symptoms like a runny nose, severe cough, and high fever.

It’s often followed by severe head and body aches, says Dr. Anna Kathryn Burch, a Pediatric Infectious Diseases doctor at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital of the Midlands.

“You are gonna feel terrible! I’d like to say in very simple terms, you’re gonna feel like you got run over by a Mack truck. It is just gonna make your body hurt. You get a lot of what we call myalgias or what we call muscle pains. You’re gonna be achy all over, and a lot of people really feel so bad that they just want to stay in bed,” she says.

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