Theresa Birardi, DO

Clinical Director of Core Primary Care and Family Medicine Physician at ChristianaCare Primary Care at Claymont ChristianaCare

Wilmington DE

Dr. Theresa Birardi is the clinical director of Core Primary Care at ChristianaCare Primary Care at Claymont.

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Dr. Theresa Birardi is the clinical director of Core Primary Care at ChristianaCare Primary Care at Claymont, located in Delaware. Dr. Birardi is a family medicine physician who has spoken to the news media about the importance of vaccinations. She also spends some administrative time with ChristianaCare’s Center for WorkLife Wellbeing each week. As a outpatient champion, she acts as a connector between outpatient caregivers and the Center.

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Family Medicine

Education

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

2007

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Flu shots safeguard workforces from losses

Delaware Business Times online

2020-11-09

It’s important to get the influenza vaccine every year, but Dr. Theresa Birardi, family physician with ChristianaCare Primary Care at Claymont pointed out, with COVID-19 circulating around, the flu shot could prevent serious complications of having the both viruses at the same time.

“They both can become fairly significant respiratory illnesses with complications that require hospitalization. We don’t really know enough from a scientific perspective, about patients who had both at the same time,” Birardi told Delaware Business Times. “The flu vaccine will give you significant protection from having the flu and those complications.”