MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- It’s been more than five years since the COVID-19 pandemic sent the country into lockdown and the healthcare industry into overdrive.

The winter wave of COVID is on its way, and experts advise you to prepare and make preventive plans to keep the virus at bay.

“So, we still recommend that people that are at high risk for Covid complications, again, people over the age of 65, those with chronic underlying medical conditions, weakened immune system, definitely get vaccinated," said Dr. Shirin Mazumder at Methodist LeBonheur.

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Surveillance data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent

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