The fall and winter holidays are just around the corner. Remember to get your flu shot and COVID-19 booster this season!

Did you know that if you have the flu or COVID-19, you can be contagious before you even experience symptoms?

Flu season has started and there are already 69 laboratory-confirmed flu cases in Delaware. The flu vaccine and COVID-19 booster both help your body develop antibodies to fight off the virus. The flu vaccine cannot give you the flu and the COVID-19 vaccine cannot give you COVID-19. Vaccines help strengthen your immune system by triggering your body to develop antibodies against viruses. It can take up to two weeks for your body to develop antibodies, so get your vaccines early in the season.

Protect yourself so you can protect others during this holiday and travel season, and stay healthy if you're staying on campus!

UD is hosting flu vaccine and COVID-19 booster clinics on campus in Pencader Dining Hall. All UD faculty, staff, students (full-time, part-time, undergraduate, graduate) and the Newark community are invited. Individuals who are age 12 and older are eligible for the new bivalent COVID-19 booster, as long as it has been two months since your most recent COVID-19 vaccine.

The bivalent COVID-19 booster and flu vaccine clinics will be on Friday, November 4, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, November 18, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Click here to register for flu and/or COVID-19 vaccines. For more information, click here.

Student Health Services also hosts flu vaccine clinics just for UD students every Friday in the SHS Annex behind Laurel Hall from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. through Friday, November 18. For more information and to register online, visit sites.udel.edu/studenthealth/flu-vaccine-clinic.