Mexico’s Undersecretary of Health asks millions of people not to get the flu shot

Given the increase in cases of influenza due to the winter season, Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary of Health, asked the population that is not at risk of serious illness to refrain from vaccination.

During the press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he recalled that the vaccine is not widely used, but is for people over 60 years of age, pregnant women and children under five years of age, as well as people with diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, chronic cardiovascular or pulmonary disease, or people who are immunosuppressed.

“I emphasize . . .