Get ready, the flu season is coming. Here's what you need to know and when you should be vaccinated against the flu.

Some of us will get it. Some of us will not do it.

But this year's flu season is coming. And after last year's nightmare season, health experts are begging people to get the flu shot.

But when is the best time to get one? Where are they available? And what are the myths that prevent people from being vaccinated against the flu?

That's right, some years the flu vaccine can become a major flop.

Which was partly the case last season. Although the vaccine is globally effective at around 36%, it has collapsed with respect to the dominant strain of influenza, the H3N2 virus, and has only been shown to be effective at up to 25%. .

Some years it has been even lower. But, does that mean you should not get one? No.

According to health experts, even if the vaccine is a flop a season, you will still benefit.

"We saw people who had the flu … had much lighter symptoms than not getting the flu shot," said Dr. Chris Freer, president of St. Barnabas Medical Center's Emergency Medicine and Director RWJBarnabas Health Emergency Services.

Now. Or at least very soon, say health experts. It takes about two weeks for the vaccine to start acting in your body. Although the CDC recommends that people get vaccinated at the end of October and that the flu season usually does not start until November and December, experts say there are several reasons to end it.

Here are three reasons to do it sooner than later:

1. You are busy and you will forget.
2. Pharmacies may miss some influenza vaccines that cover the three or four different strains during a given season (which occurred last year).
3. The flu is unpredictable and can start earlier a few years.

"If vaccines are available … I will not be late," said Dr. David Cennimo, an assistant professor of medicine and infectious medicine at Rutgers New Jersey School of Medicine. "Patients are too likely to miss the vaccine because they are waiting."