Flu shot urged amid coronavirus crisis

Health experts are urging Australians to get their flu shot this year to stop burdening hospitals likely to be strained with coronavirus patients. One of the nation's largest suppliers of flu vaccine formula is assuring people it has plenty of stock for everyone. But Seqirus senior medical director Jonathan Anderson warned the flu shot was not a cure for coronavirus. 'We want to try and keep people as healthy as possible to avoid them being at risk of other other complications,' Dr Anderson told AAP. 'We would also want to make sure that we don't get confusion when people get the flu, that people might think that they've got coronavirus.'