AFTER THE HIGH SEVERITY of the 2024-25 flu season, health experts are making predictions for the upcoming season and urging the public to get immunization for both influenza and COVID-19.

Jeffrey Silvers, an infectious disease specialist with Sutter Health, spoke in a webinar Tuesday giving advice and explaining forecasts for this year’s flu season in Northern California. Sutter Health is a health care provider based in Sacramento with hundreds of locations across the Bay Area.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.