Today is Saturday, September 16th. The first official day of fall is just one week away,

and this is the season viral infections tend to peak. So what can you expect this year

when it comes to COVID, the flu, and RSV? Today we're talking with epidemiologist Dr.

Caitlin Jettelina. You may know her from social media or her popular sub-stack newsletter,

Your Local Epidemiologist. She's here to share her insights on the updated COVID-19 vaccine

that was just approved earlier this week and should be available where you are either now or soon.

We go over a lot, including what parents may want to keep in mind,

and one thing to do if you're planning to get the COVID and flu shots at the same time.

We also talk about flu season and the new tools for RSV, all of that and more coming up.

Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday,

when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in

the news. Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes,

where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes.

I'm Air Commandy. It's now time for today's Special Edition Saturday.

Caitlin Jettelina, thank you so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy once again.

Yeah, thanks for having me again. I'm excited to be here.

So first, I would love to just get a quick update on the state of COVID-19 in the US right now.

Right now, we are currently experiencing a wave of infections. This is coming off of the summer of

a kind of a variant soup of changing behaviors because of heat. Omicron since about two years ago

continues to mutate in these small incremental changes, and we want that. We don't want some random

mutation out of nowhere coming by like Delta, because that allows us to kind of predict where this

virus is going and allow us to prompt a proactive response, like we're doing right now with fall

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