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Posted: January 31 2015 at 1:38pm |
The CDC doesn't do a national count of adult flu deaths. But a tally of deaths from 122 U.S. cities indicated that 9 percent of all deaths last week were attributed to flu and pneumonia. That's not a record, but it's higher than what's been seen in the thick of most recent flu seasons. It reached 10 percent two winters ago.
The good news is flu season seems to have peaked, at least for much of the country, officials say. "Nationally, we're on the decline. But we're still going up in some areas," said Lyn Finelli, the CDC's flu surveillance chief. Flu seems is receding in the Southeast and Southwest, for example. But it's surging in New England and the West Coast. ——— |
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