and get sudafed, urine or sudafed, either in combination or by itself across the counter, there's nasal decon afrin people might know of as a nasal decongestant. the only trick with afrin is if you use it for more than five days, it can actually make a congestion worse. so be very careful about that rebound. and if you have other conditions that result in congestion like allergies like i do, there are a lot of other effective treatments like nasal steroids. flonase all of these actually work very well to help people with allergies. >> all right. hey dr. chin-hong, i got to ask you, you know, we're talking about cold medication. cold and flu season is starting up. of course, i know you've been encouraging people to get the flu vaccine, but also today it is now available. you can get the newly reformulated new version of the covid vaccine. so i want to ask you if you think people should rush out right now to get both or what do you advise? >> so i think there's one group of people who should rush out a little bit more than the others. and the people i'm worried most about are those who are olde

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decon decongestant? >> so it would go off the shelves. what would be used in place. there is a product called pseudoe fed rin. what are you going to do as an alternative? there are nasal but you're going to see there's going to be a lot of downstream effectiveness from industry, and you can also imagine that groups that are represented by industry are having a big problem with this, and they're saying, hey, you know, hold up. the studies actually show that it is effective. it's going to be a little bit of a battleground. i think at the end of the day, kate, we're going to see this product if the fda makes this recommendation -- if this advisory committee makes this recommendation to the fda, the fda may very well pull the product from the shelves. >> okay, will you stick around for us for a second? we want to talk to you about another big health l story. we got breaking news on the fda has approved a new round of covid booster shots as cases rise across the u.s. >> hospital admissions are up more than 15%. deaths are also up more than 10%. let's bring back our nbc news medical contributor, dr. natalie azar. how soon could these boosters roll out, and who could get the