February 22, 2026

You’re not imagining it, there’s a cough going around

12 minutes

Dr. Samantha Canning, an internal medicine specialist at Northwestern Medicine, joins Steve Dale to talk about everyone’s least favorite winter activity, getting sick. It’s unlikely you live anywhere near Chicago and haven’t either known someone or yourself who has experienced one of the really nasty upper respiratory viruses going around. What can you do to prevent this? There is no vaccine. And if you are sick, now what? If you haven’t had the influenza vaccine, is it too late in the season? And why aren’t we hearing about COVID-19?

https://serve.castfire.com/s:northwestern_medicine_KEiLn/audio/7989947/DocCanning02226_2026-02-22-215147.64kmono.mp3

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