"The bottom line is you should try to do whatever you can to maintain the family in the best care, " said Michael Brady, chair of the pediatrics department at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and a member of the AAP's immunization committee.

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Dr. Stephen Daniels, the chairman of the department of pediatrics at the University of Colorado, agrees.

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Dr. Charles Feldman, an allergist with Columbia University's Department of Pediatrics, said he had an unusually large number of patients complain about hay fever over the winter.

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Moreover, flu shots are highly effective at reducing the risk of people dying from the flu, according to Kenneth Bromberg, chairman of the department of pediatrics at The Brooklyn Hospital Center.

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