This year’s flu season was expected to be bad. So far, it’s living up to the hype.
In its most recent flu report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the number of people infected with the flu and pneumonia was near an epidemic threshold.
Twenty-two states report a high number of flu cases, mostly in the midwest and southeast. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 20, more than 2,500 people were hospitalized due to the flu. Most were over 65 or younger than 4 years old.
A total of 15 children have died from the flu in 2014, four of them the week before Christmas.
This year’s flu is mostly Type A H3N2, which coincides with thehighest number of deaths and hospitalizations in the past decade. The worst year in recent memory was in 2012, when 171 children died from the flu.
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