Myth vs Fact: Flu Season Edition

Flu season is in full swing, so let’s clear up a couple of common misconceptions. 🤒

❌ Myth: If you have a fever, it’s definitely the flu.

✅ Fact: Flu, COVID-19, and RSV share overlapping symptoms. Testing is the only way to know for sure which one you have.

❌ Myth: The flu shot can give you the flu.

✅ Fact: Flu vaccines are made with either inactivated (killed) viruses, or with only a single protein from an influenza virus.

When symptoms hit, testing takes the guesswork out of it. Interpath offers respiratory illness testing at locations across the region, because knowing what you have changes how you treat it.

Learn more at InterpathLab.com