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Public Health: Keep up to date on vaccines

ER visits for COVID, flu, RSV typically rise in Dec.

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Student medical assistant Megan Kivari extracts a vaccine from a bottle at Kaiser Permanente’s Cascade Park Medical Office. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian files)

Local health officials are urging residents to keep up to date with vaccines for COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, this fall.

Emergency room visits and hospitalizations for acute respiratory illness in Clark County have been slowly decreasing since they peaked in February, but they typically rise around December.

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