Source: TODAY.com
Influenza is now widespread in 36 states, with at least 11.4 million people sick from the flu since October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. While the current epidemic shows no sign of being as deadly as the 2017-2018 flu season, which which killed 80,000 people in the U.
S., cases don’t seem to have peaked yet. The CDC expects elevated flu activity to continue for weeks.The CDC estimates there have been 136,000 flu hospitalizations between Oct. 1, 2018 and Jan. 19, 2019, with the most severe cases among Americans, 65 and older.
Three more children died in the week between Jan. 12 and Jan. 19th, bringing the total for the season…
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