The Erie County Department of Health held a first-of-its-kind event Tuesday afternoon.

Community members were invited to the Healthy Fall and You event, where flu and COVID-19 vaccines as well as tests were handed out for free.

LECOM partnered with the health department to make sure Erie County residents had a convenient opportunity to receive access to important health care resources that may not always be easy to access.

"We're heading into respiratory disease season this year and we had record high flu cases last year so we want to make sure that people have access to flu vaccines and the test kits that you can do at home are a really nice resource because the earlier you know what respiratory disease you have the sooner you can potentially get treatment," said Erin Mrenak, director

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