I'm a primary care physician, and I can tell you that most of my acute, same day appointments are usually booked by 8:30 in the morning. We seem to be over the minor COVID surge we had in the fall, but we're now seeing a huge wave of flu. And there's also a shortage of tamiflu, so I really can't even do much at this point other than recommend medications for symptomatic relief. I know there's also a lot of RSV going around too, but I don't see kids in my office.

We're not short of flu vaccines, and the vaccine so far appears to be pretry well matched to the predominant strain this year. Take that as a PSA to get a flu vaccine.