RIVERSIDE, N.J. (WPVI) -- Crystal Wells is doing everything she can to not get sick this year, and that includes getting her flu shot.

"I don't want to be in big crowds. Definitely don't want to catch anything from anybody else," said Wells of Delran, New Jersey.

Pharmacist Sharon Maher gives out hundreds of flu shots each season here at Paramount Drug in Riverside, though over the last few years, she's seen fewer and fewer patients coming in for the shot.

"When they are coming in, their concerns seem to have been COVID more than the flu. Sometimes we got them back for the flu and sometimes we didn't," said Maher.

Right now, CDC data shows flu cases are low here at the beginning of the season. But last year was a high-severity flu season, with the highest hospitalization rates since

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