 In addition to their drive-through COVID-19 testing, Pipeville Medical Center is now offering drive-through flu shots. I had the chance to meet with Dr. Fadi Alacross, the infectious disease specialist at Pipeville Medical Center, to discuss the importance of getting your flu shot this year amid this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and how closely related flu symptoms are to that of COVID-19. So we created that drive-through for several purposes, for blood draw, for imaging and for testing and now we are finding that drive-through is an excellent way to get people to come and get vaccination because we know that a lot of people are behind vaccination schedule and our intention here to promote that nice environment, non-toxic environment, healthy environment here if we want people to get their vaccination to protect them. Dr. Fadi says one of his concerns is the flu season starting amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of having both at the same time or the higher chance of getting one after the other. The biggest concern if you're affected with one virus, this is going to make you frail and vulnerable to catch another one and in this situation, the outcome is going to be poor. That's why here we know that flu has vaccine and you can protect yourself for the flu. So we are asking people to get vaccination to protect themselves from the flu and prevent all these drastic consequences. They may happen if you capture the two infection together. Cancer. We know it's a scary diagnosis. But you are not alone. We are here with you. We are here for you. Together, we will fight this. We're coming after you, Cancer. With technology. Compassion. And faith. And faith. Because together. Together, we fight Cancer. With Popville Medical Center's new drive-through options, patients can have a COVID-19 test and a flu shot consecutively. So here you're going to kill two birds with one stone. Coming to the drive-through, you can get the flu shot and you can get tested. I think that's a wonderful situation for them. The drive-through is located behind the Family Practice Building on South Mayo Trail and is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Anyone without insurance can pay $30 out of pocket. Otherwise, insurance is accepted with no copay. Because our goal is to promote healthy environment. We need people to be healthy and I think the flu shot is a wonderful tool to prevent COVID-19 to protect people from catching illnesses. And this is basically what we want. We want them to be healthy, prevent complications, prevent problems. So please come and receive your flu shot vaccination. PMC is also offering flu shots every Friday at the South Williamson Primary Care Facility, Pressensburg Primary Care and the Wattsburg Clinic. Reporting from Pikeville, Kentucky, I'm Jeremy Justice with Mountain Top News.