- Actor Jennifer Grey is speaking out about the importance of the flu shot.
- The flu shot can help lower your chances of spreading the flu to your friends and family, and keep people at increased risk of complications safe.
- Serious flu-related complications include cardiovascular events, pneumonia, and hospitalization.
When actor Jennifer Grey played Jeanie in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” she was determined to catch Ferris skipping school.
However, 35 years after she performed the iconic role, Grey is encouraging everyone to learn a thing or two from her infamous on-screen brother.
She wants you to take a day off for your own health and wellness by prioritizing the flu shot.
Grey partnered with the American Nurses Association (ANA) and Sanofi Pasteur to support their campaign, Flu Shot Fridays, an unbranded educational campaign designed to drive awareness of the importance of flu vaccination and create urgency to get vaccinated.
“Why not take any chance you can to treat yourself to a quality day, and aside from health and wellness, give yourself something practical on the day to do something fun?” Grey told Healthline.
Just like Ferris and friends visited the Chicago Art Institute and Wrigley Field during their “me time,” Grey is suggesting following their lead by planning a day to receive your flu shot and have some fun, too.
“There’s a way to bring some lightness into [this], because there’s so much heaviness [right now]. I think if everybody just grabbed a friend and said, ‘Let’s get our flu shot and let’s go out and do something fun together’ or ‘Let’s play a game’ or ‘Let’s cook’ or ‘Let’s have a walk on the beach or a hike with the dogs’… I think that’s a nice way to think about it,” she said.
However, having had the flu before, Grey said she does take the campaign seriously.
“[When] I have the flu, I literally cannot believe how bad I feel, like I’ve been hit by a truck and that I’ll never feel good again… and just feeling like I never want to have this again,” she said.
Source: healthline