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"Hospitals always get an influx of flu patients in the winter months. If enough people develop a severe case of the flu and need to be hospitalized, that influx of patients could overwhelm the healthcare system," says infectious disease specialist Jonathan Grein, MD, director of Hospital Epidemiology at Cedars-Sinai. "We're trying to avoid a so-called 'twindemic.'"