With cold and flu season about to begin and Covid continuing, should you get a vaccine if you’re already under the weather? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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It’s vaccination season, with many considering getting a Covid vaccine in light of ongoing infections nationwide. Critical care medicine expert Panagis Galiatsatos at Johns Hopkins, who’s also a community medicine advocate, says if you’re already under the weather now is not the time to get a vaccine.

Galiatsatos: One of the reasons we just ask you all not to go get a vaccine when you're not feeling well is because if you get it and you begin to not feel well more, we can't tell if it's the vaccine that did it, we can't tell it's just a progression of the infection. So you really want to go get these vaccines when you are feeling great, you are not your healthiest, and that way there's nothing that's muddying the water to interpret what's going on after you got the shot.  :22

Galiatsatos says he fully expects the new Covid vaccine to be available soon.

Galiatsatos:  Regardless of what's maybe the cacophony of what's going on with others from the CDC etcetera the timeline for those who are making the vaccines hasn't been interrupted.         :09

At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.