dr. laura riley is here on behalf of the american college of obsstrigses and ginecoljists.they will be available to you during the question and answer session at the end of our program. so you can see there are lots of important and influential voices here today. i would like to acknowledge that where influenza vaccination is concerned, the voice that carries the most way for an individual is their own doctors. later this morning, i will share with you some new research that nfid has collected about physicians and health care professionals as im ization influnesers and how they view vaccination. at this point, i would now like to introduce dr. thomas frieden, cdc director. >> thanks very much. and thanks to our partners for putting this together and for shining a light on flu. this year, the message is clear. everyone over the age of six months should get a flu shot. flu is serious. every year, millions of people get sick, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized, and thousands of people die from influenza. and there are thing that is are new this year that make getting th