Top doctor says it’s time to get a flu shot

The state’s top doc says you should get a flu shot. Dr. Patricia Quinlisk says there’s no shortage of flu vaccine now, as there was in the fall.Quinlisk just got her flu shot a couple of days ago. Until mid-December, the flu vaccine shortage forced Iowa’s health care community to reserve the shots for very old and very young Iowans, very sick Iowans and pregnant women.Quinlisk has confirmed two strains of the flu have been reported in Iowa, and a third strain has been confirmed in a neighboring state.Quinlisk says if you don’t get vaccinated, you run the risk of getting the flu three times.