Vaccination season has arrived in the Bay Area, as the respiratory virus season approaches

Even before the COVID pandemic turned the world upside down, public health officials and health care providers would plead with the public every fall to get vaccinated in advance of the season of sniffles and coughs. But now as the days get shorter, the weather gets cooler, and the respiratory virus season approaches, the stakes are even higher with COVID in the mix. Although the virus has become less deadly since it first started spreading in 2020, COVID was still responsible for nearly 7,000 deaths last year in the Golden...